Sara-Vide Ericson's new exhibition I DRIFT I Liljevalchs, Stockholm

Opening today, DRIFT, a major solo exhibition by Sara-Vide Ericson at Liljevalchs, Stockholm.

DRIFT begins in the Arctic Ocean, on board the icebreaker Oden, having embarked on both an inner and outer expedition. Over six weeks, Sara-Vide Ericson works in a container on deck painting sixty new works, while the ship is breaking through two-metre-thick ice surrounded by a landscape that’s constantly shifting. The new exhibition DRIFT is presented at Liljevalchs between November 13, 2026 and February 28, 2027. 

For this exhibition, Sara-Vide Ericson has worked in an expanded field of painting, ranging from monumental canvases and installations to materials from the Arctic expedition. At a depth of 4,000 metres beneath the Arctic Ocean, rare seabed sediments were collected through deep sea drilling – a research material where organic and geologic content is preserved in oxygen-deficient environments for millennia. In Ericson’s work, these unique sediments integrate into the works: they are dried, ground and transformed into pigment. Simultaneously, they approach each other through the body – via touch, scent and taste – in an exploration where measurable data meet sensuous experiences. Here, the precisely measurable is faced with the deeply subjective. All the works are new and are exhibited for the very first time.

Excerpt from the exhibition text by Liljevalchs. 

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Photos: Christian Larsson & Andreas Lisstrand