Sigrid Sandström's 'Squall' explores the threshold of climate and abstraction

Perrotin is presenting Squall, Sigrid Sandström’s first solo exhibition in London. Bringing together a new body of paintings, the artist explores expansive, atmospheric abstractions that evoke shifting skies, turbulence, and fragile states of equilibrium. Titled after a term that suggests both sudden meteorological change and piercing sound, the exhibition reflects Sandström’s ongoing engagement with gesture, movement, and perception, while subtly addressing humanity’s relationship to the natural world in an era of climatic uncertainty. It would be misleading to describe Sigrid Sandström’s new body of paintings as abstracted landscapes — for one thing, they do not appear to feature anything we might identify as land. Rather, if these works, with their swooping brush strokes and misty fields of colour, suggest a realm beyond that of pure paint, then surely it is the high enveloping sky. This is a place humanity can briefly visit, born up on steel wings in a blaz