09 May 2026 – 07 Nov 2027
Like a Sugar Lump in a Teacup
Carla Zaccagnini
About
In her artistic practice, Carla Zaccagnini engages with questions of perception, power, translation, and language. Over the course of several projects she has returned to the mirror as a medium, to explore its ability to distort the field of vision and challenge our perception of time and space.
When Zaccagnini was invited to create a new work for the Wanås Biennial Pavilion, she became interested in the structure’s historical function as a vantage point. Here, the estate’s owner could admire their own grounds, including the park and the castle building – a view that is now partially obscured by the dense rhododendrons.
Like a Sugar Lump in a Teacup reactivates this view. By the pond and inside the pavilion there are the two parts of a text-based work written by the artist. Like a fairy tale, it describes memories of the area around the castle and the pond, and how this landscape has been shaped by its owners. For the pavilion Zaccagnini has also constructed a periscope, whose mirrors manipulate the view and allow an otherwise prominent focal point to vanish into thin air.
Curator Debora Voges
Opening: May 9
Sculpture Park
About Wanås Biennial Pavilion
The Wanås Biennial Pavilion is a new program thread inspired by artist Evan Ifekoya’s project at the site in 2024–2025. Every other year, an artist is invited to work in dialogue with the historic pavilion and is encouraged to treat it as a meeting place for pause and reflection.
BIO
Carla Zaccagnini (born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, works in Malmö) is an artist raised in São Paulo who works with installation, drawing, text, performance, and video. She studied at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado and Universidade de São Paulo. Zaccagnini has had duo and solo exhibitions at venues including Krognohuset, Lund (2024), Amant, New York (2022), MUNTREF, Buenos Aires (2019), Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City (2018), Malmö Konsthall (2015), and Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2015), as well as participated in group exhibitions at CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2022), Kadist, San Francisco (2021), Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2019), Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg (2018), LACMA, Los Angeles (2017), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015), Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014), Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014), and others. Her works are included in the collections of, for example, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Malmö Konstmuseum, Tate Modern (London), Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York), and Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Zaccagnini is represented by Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, and 2112 Gallery, Copenhagen.
