Unsynchronized Minds by Isabelle de Brito, Isabel Backman Cashman & Emma Kindestam
Art & music exhibition @ Southside Gallery, Stockholm
9 maj, 2026
The exhibition brought together three artists in a shared space at Southside Gallery in Stockholm – an evening of new art works, live music and an underground dancefloor under one roof. Common themes included emotional intensity, the inner landscape, and the tension between the surreal and the figurative.
The works, though moving in different directions, found cohesion in their raw, emotional intensity and their drive to render the intangible aspects of consciousness into physical form.
Artistic Dialogue
Isabelle de Brito exhibited large-scale acrylic paintings where emotions and vivid, artificial colour collide. Faces and figures emerge and dissolve somewhere between reality, introspection and abstraction. The evening marked the debut of her new series Reversed Cowgirls – an exploration of integrity, and what surfaces when you look beneath it. The works were presented as a rotating installation – paintings double-sided and in motion, inviting the viewer to move around them as they revealed themselves from every angle.
Isabel Backman Cashman contributed figurative works rooted in psychology and surrealism, where saturated colour and exaggerated form become acts of resistance. Her paintings stage the unseen, translating imagination and intrusive thought into works that are at once unsettling, darkly humorous, and deeply human.
Emma Kindestam presented new works in the borderland between surrealism and expressionism, using symbolism, humour and shadow to provoke, disturb and move. Drawn to the dark and the melancholic, her paintings carry something that needs to get out.
Rebecka Bodén (Bequerel) brought melodic, organic and progressive house to the dancefloor. Her sets moved between warm basslines and emotionally charged textures.
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