Malin Gabriella Nordin is a Swedish artist whose beautiful work is worthy of a whole other post entirely. Upon sifting through the collections of sculpture, paintings and collages on her website, we found a very special project that she has being working on this year that warmed our hearts. Titled Private Language, Malin invited children aged 3-5 to view her a series of her sculptures. She spent an hour alone with each child, during which she invited them to interpret and critique her work.
In her artist’s statement she explains:
In discussion with each child I asked them “what they thought the sculptures looked like, if there was a story, which one they liked the most, etc. I asked each one of them if they felt the collection was missing something and if so could they draw the missing piece. I also asked them if the sculptures were placed in the right order or if they wanted to rearrange them, which all except for one did. The upcoming months I will interpret their drawings and make their missing pieces into new sculptures and paintings.”
What a beautiful idea, to ask pure and unaffected minds of children to see and think about her sculptures and in an effort to understand in the simplest of terms what her works means to its viewers.
The answers will be made into a book. Looking forward to reading it!
