Magnus Thierfelder Tzotzis’ Sculptural Collages of Contemporary Life

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11.03.2025

Photo by Niklas Hansson. Courtesy of ELASTIC Gallery and Magnus Thierfelder Tzotzis

Drawing from everyday life, the artist weaves together societal challenges and hidden details to create immersive works that speak to our fragile reality.

The work of Swedish artist Magnus Thierfelder Tzotzis is born from everyday walks, observations, and conversations — things written in newspapers, on social media, in different feeds, and the distance between disagreements, facts, conspiracies, linguistic inclinations, speculation, profit, untruths, conflicts, politics, climate change, algorithms, nature, and poetry. Magnus Thierfelder Tzotzis’ primary material is always the street, where people move side by side, where conversations take place, and where tensions arise. Yet in his works, the imaginary magic is always present.

Photo by Robin Ahlgren. Courtesy of ELASTIC Gallery and Magnus Thierfelder Tzotzis

These elements are then filtered through sculptural compositions, sound, still and moving images, creating a larger spatial collage that captures the fragile present we live in. The interplay between visual imagery and the linguistic symbolism of the carefully composed titles forms a cohesive whole, expanding the cognitive reading and making room for emotions: gravity, resignation, despair, and the exceptional magic that exists all around us.

Courtesy of ELASTIC Gallery and Magnus Thierfelder Tzotzis
Courtesy of ELASTIC Gallery and Magnus Thierfelder Tzotzis

For this year’s fair, ELASTIC Gallery will present a solo exhibition of works by Thierfelder Tzotzis, featuring sculptural works in close dialogue with still and moving images. These pieces highlight the associative interplay between each individual work and the spatial sculptural composition as a whole. The curated presentation aims to showcase an artistic practice that is as much concerned with the societal challenges of our time as it is with highlighting the symbolic and ingenious details hidden in our everyday landscapes.