Christine Ödlund

Christine Ödlund is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. Her work explores the borders of our knowledge of the world around us, connecting such themes as the chemical communication of plants, synaesthesia and theosophy. She works in a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, video, watercolour and sound works. 

Musical scores for electro acoustic compositions form a central part of Ödlund’s works. Her audiovisual work Stress Call of the Stinging Nettle, presented at BOTANIK, is the score for a musical composition based on observations over time of the chemical activity of a population of stinging nettles when one of them is “attacked” by a larva. Referencing educational botanical drawings and amateur watercolour studies of nature as well as the electro-acoustic notation of Györgi Ligeti and John Cage, Stress Call… brings together scientific and artistic speculation into the communication and sensory reactions of plants.