Hemma bland stammar | At home among trees

VENUE: Casino Display, 1, rue de la Loge, Luxembourg

Casino Display is delighted to invite you to an evening dedicated to the magic of Nordic nature. Musician Grift and visual artist Alexandra Uppman aim to create a true symbiosis between their respective forms of expression, using a variety of techniques and media to conjure up a shared atmosphere.

For both artists, Nordic nature is shrouded in mystery; in their view, their practice can only reveal a tiny fraction of its splendour.

Biographies

With a strong bond to his homecounty Västergötland in Sweden, Erik Gärdefors aka Grift expresses a blend of rural folk, atmospheric metal, field-recordings and ambient compositions inspired by nature mysticism andlocal folklore.
Grift's ambition is to evoke the mood some people are in great need of; the mood you can’t express through other mediums than music, words and images. Erik’s commitment to his own personal vision has attracted performance opportunities from promoters and festivals like Roadburn Festival (NL), Fekete Zaj Fesztivál (HU), L'Homme Sauvage
(FR), Fortress Festival (UK), Hradby Samoty (SK), Culthe Fest (DE), Mystic Festival (PL) amongst others.

Alexandra Uppman is a Luxembourg-based, Swedish-speaking artist with Luxembourgish and Finnish origins. She graduated from the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, and her artistic practice is inspired by the forest as a space that connects her various origins, and serves as a starting point for reflections on belonging and home. Her work is influenced by the metal music culture, and explores the emotional and symbolic links between nature and identity. She works primarily with oil-based charcoal drawings and with sculpture, while also exploring ways to incorporate immersive
and atmospheric elements into her work.
Recent exhibitions include works at MNAHA - The National Museum of History and Art (LU), Cercle Cité (LU), Luxembourg Art Week (LU)