Born in Edsbyn, SE, 1990
Lives and works in Paris, FR
Rebecca Lindsmyr’s work revolves around questions of identity, language, and the shifting nature of the self. Through painting, she explores how subjectivity is formed, fractured, and reshaped over time – both personally and culturally. Her practice often draws on psychoanalytic and post-structuralist thought but remains grounded in the material and emotional language of the body.
Lindsmyr approaches the painterly surface as a site of projection and resistance, where gestures, marks, and erasures reflect inner tensions and social codes. A recurring motif in her recent work is her own handwritten signature, used not only as an autobiographical marker, but as a way to question how identity is reproduced, abstracted, or lost. The signature becomes a stand-in for the self: expressive yet mechanical, intimate yet estranged.
Working with techniques such as layering, screen printing, and masking, Lindsmyr creates surfaces that hold contradiction – moments of legibility and confusion, presence and absence, repetition and rupture. Her paintings resist fixed readings, instead opening space for reflection on how we construct meaning, filter emotion, and navigate the complexities of selfhood.
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