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A conversation between Willem Andersson and Sofia Curman

How would you describe the paintings in this exhibition?

It's so hard for me to put what I do into words. I think that my world of words and images are unusually divided, there is a compact wall between them. When I have to talk about what I paint, it's like I drill a tiny, tiny hole in the wall, from the world of words, and then look into the world of images and am forced to describe what I see. Painting for me is completely wordless. But I can start by saying that this is the first thing I have painted in four years. I took a …