About

Lola Carlander Wade is a Swedish-born conceptual artist based in Connecticut, USA.

 

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Working primarily in sculpture, she draws inspiration

from everyday life and objects, using materials such as clay, glass, thread, paper, and fabric to convey both fragility and resilience while challenging and pushing each to its limits. Her work is often presented as installations that bring together sculpture, text, graphics, and video.

 

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Rooted in psychological, philosophical, and social inquiry, Carlander Wade's practice explores the systems we construct as protection and compass — self-defense mechanisms, routines, habits, and recovery strategies that offer comfort, support, and guidance while helping us stay sane. She questions where the line is drawn between support and control, between what sustains and what suffocates. Her work explores thresholds where extremes blur and exchange places: freedom and confinement, perfection and imperfection, meaning and futility, illness and health, the essential and the inessential. Through intentionally time-consuming, meticulous processes — repetition, deconstruction, mending, chance, and refinement — that balance on the border between destruction and repair, she explores these interchangeable positions.