STOCKHOLM.- Cecilia Hillström Gallery is presenting Ebba Matz’s second solo show at the gallery. In the new exhibition, the foundation for Matz’s installation is that of a sculptor and creator of space, both inner and outer. The sculpture 8 minutes 20 seconds, which also lends its name to the exhibition, contains black glass spheres symbolizing the planets and the sun. The title refers to the time, based on the speed of light, it would take us to realize that the sun has shut down. The exhibition makes the gallery a down-scaled model of the universe. 8 minutes 20 seconds is about recreating systems too extraordinary to grasp, yet giving in to the yearning of understanding our position and the foundation for everything.

The exhibition text has been written by Sara Walker.

Ebba Matz (b. 1963) graduated from The Royal Institute of Art in 1992. Her work has been shown at Färgfabriken, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Cité des Arts, Paris, Wanås Art, Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall and Magasin III, as well as in exhibitions in France, Germany, USA, Canada, and Poland. She was awarded the Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize in the memory of Sigrid Lind in 2001. Matz’s work is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Malmö Art Museum, Gothenburg Art Museum, Public Art Agency Sweden and Dunkers Kulturhus.

Matz has a vast experience from public commissions, such as the sculpture Sch, tyst, lyssna (2016) at the entrance of the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden. The concrete floor with intarsia at St Johannesplan in Malmö (2014) is a result of a cooperation with White Architects. In the project Déjà vu at the Dragarbrunn Square in Uppsala (2010), Matz made water-jet-cut sheets of stainless steel in the shape of ink blots on paper, while the sculpture Här/Here (2006) in Gothenburg takes the form of an enlarged map pin, to mention a few.