In the months before their exhibition ‘Svanesang’, Mamma Andersson and Tal R exchanged imagery and ideas. Through the back-and-forth, meaning is made.

Top: Tal R
Svaner om natten
2016
Pigment and rabbit glue on canvas
250x200cm

Below: Mamma Andersson
Weekend
2016
Oil and acrylic on panel
122x150cm

“Symbolism is just sugar for the people. Of course swans are symbolic, but you have to move on.”

Mamma Andersson, Tal R &Synne Rifbjerg, Svanesang, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Köln: 2017) p44