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"I have a Feeling We Are Not in Kansas Anymore"
Group Exhibition in FAFA Gallery Helsinki, 2008
Curated by Lars Bang Larsen

In her paintings, Lässer connects to the tradition of spiritualist art, which informed many of the big modernist artists of the early 20th century. She uses symbols of time and transformation, such as crystals and swirling bodies of colour, to produce vistas to other worlds, or to places that may exist between dimensions. Apart from working in continuation of the hippie generation’s appetite for all things occult and supernatural, the cosmic narratives of Lässer’s paintings also connect to a relatively unknown history of women’s art. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), for example, allegedly took dictate from the spirit world to produce a strange type of abstraction that was close to her contemporanies Malevich and Mondrian – even if she always worked in isolation. Both the free love of the 1960s as well as Hilma af Klint’s eroticism is present in the laconic title of Lässer’s works: Fuck Forever.

Curator Lars Bang Larsen