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Six landscape paintings serve as a starting point for an exploratory painting practice in which the question of the relationship between intuition and perception, material and abstract reality, is central. With “The Perceptualist view of intuition,” philosopher Elijah Chudnoff describes a view of intuition as a category of intellectual perceptions with a common phenomenology.
The perspective on intuition means that intuitions give us access to abstract reality in a similar way that perceptions give us access to material reality. The landscape paintings serve as a framework for a painting practice that allows inner and outer vision to wander between everything from the surface of the canvas to the studio room and further over the affordable artfair sign on the ship's bridge, a book about the Nordics 2030, political aesthetics and the linguistic properties of the painting.
The impressions land as perceptions or perceptual memories but at the same time become part of one's own thought structure or hand movement. Intuition guides the gaze but also the form of understanding the impressions. The relationship between abstract and material reality is expressed in the exhibition through the paintings as material formations of impressions and through abstract or conceptual approaches to the canvas space as a surface.
Embracing, reformulating, or giving form and substance to formless perception or conceptless intuition becomes a matter of reality, and there the artistic intuition functions as a co-creator, rather than a truth-teller.
Hanna Zelleke Collin
ABOUT THE BERNADOTTE SCHOLARSHIP
Since 2016, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Swedish Academy and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture operate a joint grant programme to promote inter-Academic work for the benefit of researchers and young artists.
The scholarship includes a grant from Axel Hirsch's donation fund, a one-year studio stay and an exhibition at the Art Academy.
Hanna Zelleke Collin was awarded the Bernadotte Scholarship 2021
for his artistic work, Intuition and perception in drawing and painting, founded in theoretical philosophy. The project revolves around the role that artistic intuition can have in other areas of knowledge. The subject's elusive nature and goal create interest and curiosity, where the artist's paintings become both research material and a statement within the subject area. The works exude integrity, sensitivity and shine with an understated appeal.
Hanna Zelleke Collin, born 1987 in Stockholm, received her Bachelor's degree from Konstfack in 2012 and her Bachelor's degree from Stockholm University, Theoretical Philosophy, in 2020.
Questions about how the phenomenon of intuition differs within different subject areas have provided a philosophical method in relation to the artistic painting process of the artist, which also revolves around how mathematical intuition affects the understanding of the pictorial surface.
The artist formulates questions about how intuition can be understood based on the question of the alternatives: a unified theory or subject-specific, as different types of intuitions have been described as different phenomena within varied areas of knowledge.