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Sofia Bjurstr\u00f6m<\/a>‘s charcoal drawings move. They test the limits of time, of dance, of some Gilded Age in a distant past or distant future. They appear suspended in an unconceivable moment. The\u00a0Stockholm, Sweden-based painter, about to open her first US solo show at Richard Heller Gallery<\/a> in\u00a0Shadows of Glass<\/em>, is a bit of a mystery herself, letting the elegant and obscured black and white works sort of create a bit of a blurred idea of her practice. Her work is a conversation about memory, how we remember, the distortion of the truth of the past and how we present memories into the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n Part of her work is also about the act of looking. Of watching. With her subject matter being the performance of dance, the action of a practiced recital, there is also part of the viewer that is engaged in watching art come to life. It’s the act of watching a creation that plays with the idea of how we remember that feels so electrifying in these works, and something that is pulsating with life. \u2014Evan Pricco<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n