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A Blind Seeing
by Camilla Larsson

In an essay written in 2017, Leif Elggren described how his work with the colours yellow and black "generated new means to look upon the world". In 2022, I curated the group exhibition Their happiest days were the dark and vast days of rain, which was conceived around the idea of treating the artists as spectators. Elggren took part with the painting series Black: To paint myself back to Yellow (2021). These abstract paintings are just as open for interpretation as they are concrete – a meditation on the meeting between the brightest and darkest of …