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According to art critic Anders
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technique, working in a similar fashion but with larger forms and figures. She lives and works in Sweden. Kristalova has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in London, Paris, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Santa Fe as part of Museum Site Santa Fe, Stockholm at the
National Museum,
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Barbara in the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. In 2011, she had a solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery. Kristalova’s first survey at an American Museum was exhibited in 2014 at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. She has created numerous public commissions in
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serve as an inspiration to her work. By using these works and adding her own twist, Kristalova explores memory, trauma, and the lost territory of childhood. Her characters are mostly girls, who morph into flora, fauna, and other natural elements.
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this tradition the three-dimensional artwork is seen as a means of three-dimensionally "educating" the viewer in a realm inhabited by both the viewer and the artwork simultaneously through their common physical relationship to the room."
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Sweden such as the memorial in the public garden park in
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Kristalova is known for her ceramic sculptures that have a fantastical quality while exploring darker narratives. Traditional myths, fairy tales, and other literary sources such as
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