Johanna RobletoJohanna Robleto

Title thesis:

Communion through exclusion
How can exclusion lead to communion?

Subject:
When society fails, new subcultures are born as a resistance to the current state of society. In the exclusion from society, a new form of communion is born. People who live in stigmatised areas in harsh conditions where they feel excluded from society can, through music, clothing, art, etc., gain a voice to be heard and listened to, an expression of their own existence. Creating a communion in his or her own being. Some by silence and others by showing resistance, some through music, some through visual expression such as graffiti and street art and some by throwing bricks.



Link to thesis (PDF)

In life the decisions I make often come from an impulsive act. From an intuitive decision making rather than logical as cause and effect.

My approach to painting starts the same way, intuitive combined with stern appraisal, not knowing what a painting will look like when completed.

To relate to the cause and effect requires a transparent and simplified view of the world. Such is, however, not the world to us humans.
Each painting becomes a chapter, as windows to something else.

“What´s magical about painting is that the thing about time is that its always over. What happens when you paint is that you can reserve it. You can’t do that with life” [Per Kirkeby]

Title thesis:

Communion through exclusion
How can exclusion lead to communion?

Subject:
When society fails, new subcultures are born as a resistance to the current state of society. In the exclusion from society, a new form of communion is born. People who live in stigmatised areas in harsh conditions where they feel excluded from society can, through music, clothing, art, etc., gain a voice to be heard and listened to, an expression of their own existence. Creating a communion in his or her own being. Some by silence and others by showing resistance, some through music, some through visual expression such as graffiti and street art and some by throwing bricks.



Link to thesis (PDF)

In life the decisions I make often come from an impulsive act. From an intuitive decision making rather than logical as cause and effect.

My approach to painting starts the same way, intuitive combined with stern appraisal, not knowing what a painting will look like when completed.

To relate to the cause and effect requires a transparent and simplified view of the world. Such is, however, not the world to us humans.
Each painting becomes a chapter, as windows to something else.

“What´s magical about painting is that the thing about time is that its always over. What happens when you paint is that you can reserve it. You can’t do that with life” [Per Kirkeby]