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Hej Angels! Forever , solo exhibition at Elephant Art Space in Los Angeles, 2022

In Hej Angels! Forever Theselius has created an oversized faux leather vest with detailed embroidered patches and enlarged pins. This piece has been meticulously copied from a motorcycle vest that belonged to Theselius's deceased stepfather, Swedish artist Anders Bom Lindén, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2012.

Anders Bom Lindén graduated from Malmö Art Academy in Sweden in 1998 and was active as an artist until his death. He made work from his own experiences, reflecting on themes such as loneliness, desire, and expressions of outsider-ness and freedom, using various mediums.
From the time Theselius was an art student until today, she has been greatly influenced and inspired by Lindéns' mode of working and living, which blurs the boundaries between art and life, reality and fantasy. Bom was both a friend, colleague and father figure for Theselius.

The act of copying his motorcycle vest is an attempt to capture some of his spirit. The oversized vest is accompanied and backlit by a red neon sign spelling out the phrase ”Hej Angels!” (”Hey Angels!”), a slip of the tongue that Lindén used when referring to the motorcycle club Hells Angels. This neon sign stems from a larger ongoing tribute project about Theselius’s stepfather, first exhibited at Room Gallery in Irvine in 2014. In that project iteration, Theselius had airbrushed her stepfather's house in the Swedish countryside onto her car to be exhibited and then driven around Los Angeles, a city he always wanted to visit but never could. A third piece, consisting of a female torso lighter that used to belong to Lindén, has a perpetually lit flame.

Hej Angels! Forever marks the 10th anniversary of Anders Bom Lindéns's passing and serves as an homage to his eccentric personality and enthusiasm for American motorcycle and car culture. For Theselius, this exhibition functions as a way to process her own ongoing grief and is a reason to continue celebrating her stepfather's memory. It is also a nod to all the Angels gone and still around.