"It is enough with just a few motifs for Inger Åhs to create an intensive atmosphere of longing to get away coupled with a light touch of sensualism. A scent of dreaminess is mixed in strongly expressed colour sensations centred around golden yellow, blue and pink. The blue flower of Romanticism hovers like a mirage in the distance, the flower which according to Novalis is never to be found in the here and now but always is far off, beyond the blue mountains.
------- Metaphysics is missing from this painting and strict geometrical forms are conspiciously absent. The degree of abstraction is more than a simple stylisation in the expressionistic manner. But thereby are opened the domains of the soul. Inger Åhs:s patches of colous and bodies of colour carry a meaning over and above what they depict. Behind the visible opens up a world of the invisible and the manifold, a rich world of feeling in which stories of fear, hope, sorrow and play, devotion and love are hidden.”
Quotes from critique by Kristina Mezei, VLT. Translation by Mark Boseley.
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