Malin Gabriella Nordin is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Hesperios is delighted to present a portfolio of her work. A recent discussion between Malin and Autumn Hrubý accompanies the images.

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What’s the color that you can’t live without?

Malin Gabriella Nordin

All of them and all of their shades and mixes; the combination of different colors together and how they change depending on their surroundings and form.

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What habit have you added to your routine in the last year that has made your life better?

Nordin

Playing tennis. I did it as a kid for many years but I quit when I was a teenager. Then I started again two years ago and I’m so happy for finding my way back to it. It makes me really happy and it has helped me in many ways. I try to play at least two times a week.

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Can you think of a place you’ve never traveled to, but that you feel you’ve already visited?

Nordin

It feels like many places, but I don’t even know if they exist. So many landscapes and worlds that appear and evolve before the eyes of my mind.

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What recipe do you know by heart?

Nordin

Pancakes, haha.

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Which meal do you most often make for yourself?

Nordin

I’m really bad at remembering to eat, and then I’m too hungry so I buy candy. But huevos rancheros with black beans and guacamole is often my lifesaver.

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What about this: Any number fewer than __ hours, is not a day of work?

Nordin

I don’t count the hours, it’s all the time. It’s something that’s always growing inside of me and then it grows even more when I let it out.

I am incredibly fascinated by the process—how thoughts, compositions, and stories emerge, how an empty canvas or paper can become worlds I did not even know existed before. Everything is possible: one form meets another, then becomes a basis for new forms to build on. The feeling in a line or a color changes in the meeting with another. Different compositions are built up and lead me forward. It’s a curiosity that drives me. And the deeper I go, the more I discover. It’s an infinite space that just keeps growing. I think it’s amazing how I can do something over and over again, day after day, and yet always have more to discover and learn.

(Actually it’s always such a weird thought when I begin to think that this is what I do for work. It’s such a dream to just do what comes naturally and what I love to do, and at the same time being able to make a living on it — I’m very thankful.)

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What do you do when you can’t focus in the studio?

Nordin

Stare at the wall, stare at a painting, change music, drink coffee, begin something new, go for a walk, eat candy, take a nap, meet friends, dance…

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Love letter or a playlist?

Nordin

Both!

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Which films influenced you as a child?

Nordin

Neverending Story. Star Wars.

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What are the foundations of art?

Nordin

Freedom.