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In Sandra Vaka’s VÅRT SUG we are met by contemporary still lives of flowers, all fresh and colourful in the sunlight, held in a tight grip by a group of soft hands.

In the growing photo series VÅR, plastic straws are used as vases for cut flowers found on morning walks to the artist´s studio. What first appears as a romantic and aesthetically pleasing natural bouquet, takes a 180-degree turn. The straw, being dependent on the human suck mechanism and a wet source, collapses in its function.

Straws not flooded with liquid,
flowers will burst in thirst,
beauty for the sake of short-lived pleasure,