About

Lola Carlander Wade is a Swedish-born conceptual artist based in Connecticut, USA. Her practice is rooted in psychological, philosophical, and social inquiry: the systems we build for ourselves as protection and compass, habits, routines, self-defense mechanisms, and coping strategies that offer comfort and guidance while helping us stay sane. She questions where the line is drawn between support and control, between what sustains and what suffocates.

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Inspired by everyday domestic objects, she reworks the mundane into sculpture, text, and works on paper, drawn to materials like ceramic, glass, thread, paper, and fabric, often pushing both material and self to the breaking point. Repetition and refinement drive the process, including the acceptance of chance where control falls short, letting the damage that occurs persist rather than correcting it away.

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Some thresholds are crossed over time: a habit tipping into obsession, meaning hollowing into futility. Others are held at once: freedom and confinement, the essential and the inessential, perfection and imperfection, present in the same gesture.