until Monday August 31 2015

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
T : +44 (0)191 478 1810
South Shore Road
NE8 3BA Gateshead
United Kingdom

Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad (born Oslo, 1980) works across painting, sculpture and poetry. She exploits the chance element of working with found materials, which brings a restless energy to much of her art. Ekblad’s exhibition at BALTIC, her first solo presentation in the UK, includes new and recent paintings and sculpture.

The exhibition centres on a group of sculptures designed as a stage set for Constellations 2012, a play by British writer Nick Payne which explores the notion that everything you can imagine is simultaneously happening in a parallel universe. The set’s twisted metal, basketballs, fishing nets, flowers and large white gates guarded by alien figures inhabit the exhibition space.