Jonas Erboe (b.1992, DK) is a visual artist studying at Bergen Academy of Art. His praxis is based on action-based painting, often taking his athletic abilities as a point of departure. Jonas Erboe is working on the tradition of 40s abstract expressionism, taking the approach, the palette, and the understanding of the period into a contemporary context. His productions are based on the common and repetitive action, which questions accepted truths regarding identity, language, and social relations over time.

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Physical presence in his practice is connected to using one's body to demonstrate dissent. Dissent in the face of expectations, anxiety, and vulnerability. In the post-war period, Pollock, de Kooning, Mitchel, and Motherwell confronted the same issues regarding freedom, responsibility, and self-knowledge.

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It's about chaos, and it's about creating order in the chaos. But the order itself is hardly as important as demonstrating its vulnerability or fragility.