Pernilla Iggstrom’s paintings are the result of a process of investigation into her personal cultural heritage – a journey which explores the effect on her own identity of being born into one culture, then subsequently being adopted into another very different one thousands of miles away.

Through painterly tensions, Pernilla explores the nature/nurture concept where the relation between the interior and the exterior, the past and the present, and the physical and the psychological are key. Although Pernilla uses personal images as a starting point, by obstruction facial features, she aims for it to be more general. The receivers might start to question their own identity and cultural set up, which in turn she hopes will lay a foundation for further investigation into who they are, as well as open up discussions. If any awareness of other cultures, religions, ethnic origins expand – hopefully, a decrease of racism could occur.

Pernilla Iggstrom

Artworks by Pernilla Iggstrom

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