Sigge Nilsson

Exploded Views

Coming from a background as a car mechanic, I was used to systems of logic, structure, and clear cause-and-effect relationships. Entering art meant encountering something fundamentally different.
Within the academy, I found myself struggling with how to combine structure and analysis with intuition and artistic openness. This tension became the foundation of my work Exploded Views. The project approaches sculpture as a process of inquiry and reflects my attempts to merge past and present, the static and the moving.
The title is a reference to a type of mechanical drawing that separates the components of an object, allowing us to imagine how they function and come together as a whole.
Working with scrap machine parts and car body panels, material that has been in my natural environment and always inspired me, the sculptures developed through a method of constant interplay between intuition and analysis, randomness and structure, chaos and order.