Carola Björk (b.1979, Stockholm, Sweden) is a mixed-media artist, working with found objects, painting, sculpture, photography, installation and text. Her work is rooted in every day life situations and touch upon relational bonds and its influence on the sense of self. In early adolescence Carola lost contact with her mother which in a natural way has developed into research on emotional wounds and the quality of care and attention.
Her work has developed in correspondence with a personal trauma where art making has become a tool of philosophizing around existential matters. Things occurring in her pieces is most often found on construction sites or recognized from home environment and used in an associative manner by refigurating former meaning into something else. Carola has a process oriented approach to her work and oscillate between intuitive and thoughtful actions. Fundamental subjects is transformation and presence, both as philosophical concepts and working method. There is an ongoing exploration of the encounter between different physical and sensual materials in Carola’s practice, which generally questions the genesis of who “I” am.