Daniel Gillberg is a Swedish interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal, working in sculpture and installation. His practice develops from a conservation-trained attention to material surfaces, where traces of use, wear, and intervention are read as fragments of embedded and speculative histories.
He engages with overlooked material traces of human and non-human presence across lived environments, including discarded materials, plant matter, and photographic documentation of spatial and mediated encounters. Working through processes of collection, indexing, and re-contextualization, he constructs assemblages that reorganize these fragments into constellatory arrangements.
These installations operate through spatial relation and adjacency rather than linear narrative, producing shifting interpretations of how environments are inhabited, perceived, and negotiated across physical, social, and mediated contexts. His work considers material traces as residual evidence of lived experience, open to continuous reconfiguration through changing frameworks of attention.
Gillberg is currently pursuing an MFA at Concordia University, Montreal.
connect: hello@danielgillberg.com