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The art of the Finnish-Swedish visual artist Ylva Holländer contains a lot of small details that make up larger wholes. She shows us that reality is an unfathomable place, with numerous phenomena large and small for us to ponder. Nature and art history are constant sources of inspiration for her highly diverse expression. For instance, Holländer is influenced by 18th-century natural-science studies, but she breaks away from the scientific by adding an artistic dimension of playfulness. Her paintings, drawings and sculptures are like multi-dimensional encyclopaedias in which she investigates what life looks like. Everything is incorporated into one and the same integrated experience, with everything also seeming to happen all at once: we can view the world from above, from below, from the inside and the outside. Recurrent features are the threads and roots that appear in picture after picture – there is an endless flux that has neither beginning nor end. This brings in a constant rhythm and collisions, even explosions. No one phenomenon is isolated, rather, the nearest is bound together with the one farthest away. Holländer views the things around her as phenomena without being for or against, and neither time nor space loom large in her…