Juni Liv Uma

(b. 1984, Borås, Sweden)

Transportör, 2024
Transporter

Eoners ekon, 2024
Echoes of Eons
Mixed media

For a few years now, artist Maria Bengtsson has been working under the pseudonym Juni Liv Uma. She works with sculpture in relation to place and materiality and bases her artistic explorations on the fragmentary composition of objects.

In the work Transportör [Transporter], Juni Liv Uma deals with the green screen as a separator, and how it – as she sees it – holds promises of success. She has used an ancient craft technique, basket weaving with plain weave, where the materials are placed above or below. Off or on. One or zero.

In Eoners ekon [Echoes of Eons], leaves of the aloe vera plants are connected to an electronic circuit board. The electrical pulses flowing through the plants as they move and react to their surroundings turn into sound.

Interview with Juni Liv Uma