LONDON, ENGLAND.-Rhodes + Mann are delighted to present a show of new work from Sweden curated by John Peter Nilsson, recently appointed curator at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. "This Sweet Sickness" is a group show with 7 Swedish artists (including one furniture designer) that presents the other side of today's welfare state. All artists are dealing with issues that in the first place seem to be sweet, innocent and normal but with closer inspection are twisted, not only in a social and aesthetic way but also in a political way, sometimes with disturbing and horrifying results.

Roger Andersson's drawings and prints refer to harmless decorative styles but filled with fatal content; Nathalie Djurberg's videos sardonically expose the underlying themes of sex and violence in story-telling for children; Jens Fänge's paintings often funnily point out the closeness between bad taste and high aesthetics; Lagombra's (Anders Jakobsen) furniture consist of one off creations made out of recycled mass-produced IKEA-products; Ylva Ogland's paintings are beautiful depictions of - heroin; Johan Zetterquist's sculptures and installations propose imploded urban plans; Ola Åstrand's screen prints investigate different degrees of depression created by a society without any social utopias.

The exhibition wants to investigate the paradox between how a modern social welfare policy has created a secure, democratic cultural climate at the same time as resulting in an artistic desire to transgress accepted norms. All seven artists have had considerable impact on the Swedish art Scene over the last two years, but have not previously exhibited together. They also differ in age and artistic background, but what brings them together is their common interest in creating alternative micro worlds that can both be seen as a refuge from existing society whilst holding a mirror to it.