Blurring the boundaries between poetry, visual art, and performance, Karl Holmqvist transforms language into a sculptural and rhythmic force. His practice centers on the materiality of words—fragmented, repeated, and reassembled into visual forms and sonic patterns that challenge fixed meaning and linear thought. Working across media including text-based installations, wall drawings, zines, video, and spoken word, he treats language as both surface and substance. Familiar phrases, slogans, and literary fragments are cut up and remixed into hypnotic sequences that slip between sense and nonsense, form and sound. His performances and readings are central to his work, where language is activated through voice and repetition, turning poetry into chant, meditation, or protest. Holmqvist’s texts—whether shouted, whispered, or printed—suggest new ways of being in language, rooted in intuition, collectivity, and subversion. Eschewing authorship and originality, he embraces appropriation and remix as political gestures, reclaiming overused or discarded language and giving it new life. Through repetition and rhythm, his work creates space for disorientation and reimagination—where text becomes a tool for resistance, ritual, and poetic play. ...
