Swedish artist Martin Wickström blends signage, landscape, figuration, and Sixties paraphernalia into montage in his cinematic oil-on-canvas paintings. Composed into scrapbook-like compositions, the work splices found imagery and personal photography together to incorporate a kind of chance encounter that lives on in his photoconceptual realism.

Intertwining both collective memory and introspective biography, Wickström references his extensive world travels, namely an impactful stint in Vietnam - and, in fusing somewhat dissonant aspects, procures a visual poetry that seems both reminiscent of our uncertain past and nostalgic for histories that never were. Like documentary vignettes, his paintings converse as puzzle pieces within a ...