Mellan två vatten (Between Two Waters)

Ann Carlsson Korneev is a sculptor and painter. When she sculpts, she often works in stone. Her sculptures are characterized by clean, soft, domed shapes. She often creates undulating curvatures that somehow seem organic, or simple geometric figures such as rings, spheres and blocks. At other times, her work is more clearly figurative, with a noticeable draw to motifs associated with nature poetry and cosmic spirituality. Human figures are interspersed with planets, seashells and water lilies.

The soft polished surfaces are rarely left undisturbed, however. Instead, Carlsson Korneev breaks up her compositions in various ways, often by juxtaposing the smooth and polished surfaces with rough and jagged stone.

In the sculpture group Between Two Waters, the artist has chosen two large stone blocks, one in the local Ekeberg marble and one in larvikite, a rock from the area around Larvik in Norway. From this, she has made one vertical and one horizontal shape, which she has placed on either side of a walking path that stretches out along the wooded shores of Lillån.

Just as the title indicates, the work is geographically located between two waters: the smaller Lillån and the larger Svartån rivers. Do you think that the stones manage to convey a sense of the surrounding waters? Rough and rugged meets glossy and rounded, and the polished surfaces are kin with the dark water flowing just beside the sculptures. The concave shape of the standing stone and the convex shape of the lying stone can seem as if they are connected, both with each other and with the river, albeit not with any precise uniformity.

Between Two Waters is part of the Lilla Å sculpture riverwalk.