The first time I used the word Emanate as a working name for an exhibition was in Rio de Janeiro in 2020. Unfortunately my work was interrupted due to the pandemic and in the meantime I created a smaller exhibition in Stockholm, with the same name, before I could go back and finish the one in Rio.

Emanate 2 is a continuation of these exhibitions, but this time the pictures are frozen in the metamorphosis where the paintings go from being figurative to abstract.

I am drawn to abstract painting when I feel that the figurative becomes too narrow and unfree. In most of my previous exhibitions I have worked with abstract and figurative motives alternately. In this exhibition, both expressions meet. It should be mentioned that most of the paintings were created in Barcelona, on a roof in El Raval. There I have experienced a kind of freedom in my creation, an ease that I have not experienced for a very long time. By that I mean the result – a more spontaneous painting. But

the process has been anything but simple.

Ulf Lindell