The Doors

Gunilla Klingberg creates new spaces or transforms existing ones through light, colour and recurring motifs. Inspired by the geometrical arrangement of mandalas which represent the cycle of the universe in a circular integrity in Eastern mysticism, her sculptures and spatial installations manipulate built-in visual forms and sensory experiences through repetition and proliferation of ready-made images such as logos of consumer goods and symbols of traffic signs. Her works often bears references to the Op Art of 1960s and the Psychedelia movement. Klingberg’s work titled "The Doors" exists at the intersection of sculpture and architecture, like many of her other pieces. For this work, she abstracts the door, an ordinary architectural element, from its function as a passage that connects or a barrier that divides spaces. Creating a kaleidoscopic effect with successively smaller door frames recessed into each other, Klingberg’s "The Doors" seems impenetrable when facing it, yet it is a conduit to a mental rather than physical opening due to its alternative treatment of space.