potato tomato
duo show
When Joncquil and Michael Johansson first met, they soon discovered a common fascination with the subtle on/regularities of everyday life. Instead of focusing on dramatic moments, they are drawn to the shifts that occur when patterns and coincidences become unbalanced. With a strong sense of humour, they invite the viewer to reflect on the hidden rhythms and connections in the ordinary, leading to a deeper understanding of the often overlooked details of everyday life.
These irregularities can manifest themselves in moments such as accidentally hearing two unrelated conversations repeating the same sentence, noticing that everyone in an underground car is wearing different shades of blue, or seeing shadows of passing clouds align perfectly with cracks in the asphalt. By highlighting these seemingly trivial moments, their art calls for reflection on how we perceive the world and reveals, often with humour, the surprising beauty of the everyday.
Their shared artistic interests led to their first joint exhibition at Galerie Ramakers in 2010, where their different artistic languages converged, offering two perspectives on the same elusive phenomena. The ongoing dialogue that followed strengthened their friendship and remained an ongoing source of inspiration for both artists in their approach to art and their view of reality.
Fifteen years later, the two have grown closer while maintaining their unique artistic voices. In potato tomato, they once again explore the unexpected rhythms hidden in the ordinary moments when the regular becomes irregular and vice versa. Both artists use shifting patterns of images and objects, merging repetition, chance and precision. The exhibition offers a chance to experience their shared perspective through paintings, sculptures and installations, which transform the ordinary in ways unique to them.
potato tomato is a dialogue between their approaches, driven by curiosity about what often goes unnoticed. With humour and reflection, they remind us that art can be found in what we often take for granted, and offer us a deeper and more thoughtful view of the world around us.