Irene Westholm, born 1953, lives and works in Gothenburg. She studied at Valand Academy of the Arts during the 1980s and began early to use video alongside painting. Her artistic practice spans more than 30 years. She has had several solo exhibitions and has participated in both domestic and international art video festivals and galleries. Her work, both paintings and video, moves between fiction, dream and reality, where the artificial collides and coexists with the everyday. She is inspired by the dream’s surprising and liberating way of making events of the most varied kinds be experienced as completely natural.