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Ida Ekblad, 'Things That Go Bump In The Night' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'The Preacher Got Drunk' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'The Idiot That Buys a Pig' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'Diario Liquido' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'Journey Into Pain' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'Gudssöner Kör Stolar' (left) (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'Pillicemin' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'Dodoma Domina Mama' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'O'Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, 'S's'sall amistake' (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, I’m four years old (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.
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Ida Ekblad, I’m four years old (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.

Put it on the record: Ida Ekblad’s I’m four years old at Tokyo’s XYZ Collective

, 30 April 2018

Ida Ekblad presented solo exhibition I’m four years old hosted by Tokyo’s XYZ Collective and Freedman Fitzpatrick which ran March 18 to April 15.

Ida Ekblad, ‘The Preacher Got Drunk’ (2018) Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Freedman Fitzpatrick and XYZ Collective, Tokyo.

The Oslo-based artist works across painting, sculpture, filmmaking, collaborations with musicians, performance as well as poetry. The introduction to the press release is a text written by Ekblad called ‘Put it on record’:

Lac insects
Italian needle tin
Cigarette card and porch
Nipponophone sleeve details
Vocalion Record and sleeve
Puritan Record and sleeve
Domino Record and sleeve
Etched reverse of one sided record
Indian Record and sleeve
Show off pied piper sales
Sands of time, man and beast,
Golden Pyramid needle tin
Notice on reverse of
Lyric Sleeve
Disco Gramophone record and sleeve

Using an aesthetic language that is both decorative and aggressive, the works use techniques that are considered both trendy and outdated, with ‘tacky’ associations of “puffy paint, rose pattern kitchen towels, run-of-the-mill graffiti, steam punk, b-girl aesthetic or airbrushing.”

The press release describes Ekblad’s process as one that veers away from rationalising or ironing things out, and towards ‘hunchy’ moments of ‘peak everything.’**

Ida Ekblad presented solo exhibition I’m four years old hosted by Tokyo’s XYZ Collective and Freedman Fitzpatrick which ran March 18 to April 15, 2018.