The work of Nina Canell attempts to activate an intersection between humans, objects and events whereby a certain kind of material imagination might be articulated. Her installations posit themselves as testing grounds – imitating, misinterpreting or reinventing elements of the natural world – proposing intimate bonds in our existing as well as fictive vicinity. A certain affinity for peripheral moves and transitions brings forth a group of sculptural works, which by way of accumulation produces modest material cross-overs and complicates our conception of proximity and distance, form and formlessness. There is a dedicated principle at work, firmly embodying the assertion that the appearance of a given thing is the outcome of the happenings it has endured – a proposition that places sculptural emphasis on conductive relations, shifting attention from its material aspect to that which is embedded or activated by a stream of occurrences. Born in 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, Nina Canell currently lives and works in Berlin.