Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1988, now lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, after some years in Brussels and Berlin subsequently his Masters Degree in 2018, Emil Carlsiö works mainly with painting and sculpture based on various flags, mainly from temporary groups and stateless nations. He uses symbols of these flags as props and cut outs after digitally transforming them. The symbols are applied on the canvas in numerous ways with minor technical differences, from graphic almost digital looking to different kinds of underpainting and experimenting with a variation of oils and painting medium. The sculptures are made in a DIY-technique and function as props of selected symbols of the paintings, often painted as monochromes, acting as dead objects where their surroundings and symbols are lost.
Stateless Fragments, as the project mentioned above is called, started in 2019 when Carlsiö got an invitation to take part in a traveling exhibition, Velvet Ropes, to which he wanted to make works without knowing his audience. At that point the works were on paper, but since then it has developed to a bigger project also including paintings and sculptures.