Swedish artist Jockum Nordström's (b. 1963) paintings, collages and drawings are full of stories. The cuttings are made in a cartoonish style. Simplified figures are set up in narrative compositions often in motion, as the figures are playing instruments, doing sports or participating in awkward sexual activities. Men and women interact in all kinds of situations and social activities. The pictures are flat and the figures are frozen in curious positions, but the sense of action is always present in Nordströms pictures. At the same time there is something strange nostalgic about the social relations. The men are dressed in bourgeois outfits, hats, boots and stylish suits, while the women have their skirts hiked up and their panties pulled down in surroundings of modernist architecture and 19century interiors and old furniture.
When Jockum Nordström visited Edition Copenhagen he was well prepared and had brought a whole suitcase full of cuttings. In his characteristic collage like style he made two lithographs Life is a Tatter and Five Nil. With the title Life is a Tatter Nordström playfully refers to both the motive a woman standing without any clothing and his technique using cut ups. Both of the lithographs are in douche colors and show stylized figures in active situations. Motion is frozen and at the same time giving the figures active and odd postures creating a feeling of estrangement.
