Noise of contemporary visual culture * Ida Ekblad

Channelling it into hybrid forms that oscillate between painting, sculpture and debris. Her installations accumulate fragments—scrap metal, found objects, cast-offs—only to electrify them with eruptive colour and cartoonish aggression. The work feels at once archaeological and futuristic: ruins of a culture still in the process of happening. Ekblad’s painted reliefs arise from a logic of collision: graffiti impulse meets folk motifs, techno ornament, art-historical residue. What holds these elements together is a feral energy, a refusal of refinement in favour of raw, over-saturated presence. She stages a world where images have gone feral, where gesture becomes architecture and where cultural detritus returns as unstable monument. In Ekblad’s universe, abstraction is not purity but excess—a riotous, maximalist strategy for surviving the avalanche of images that defines our time.