Thomas Elovsson’s works with the documentation of art, how it is mediated through different channels of distribution and in text. His work deals with painting in general and beyond that, abstract painting. His approach can be understood as role-playing or re-enactment of artistic practices. With this he tries out different painterly positions and styles, based on the idea that abstract painting is a style that has many facets and has been present in different contexts at different times, giving abstract painting a position of being a time-traveler, something that is activated in different times giving it new meaning and use. Film, photography, text and other forms of documentation is often present in his works. Either as a medium looking at paintings or in the history of his paintings. Elovsson thinks of his paintings as being developed in the same way a film comes to life in the dark room. This means layers and layers of paintings painted on top of each other where the result is the state the painting is in when leaving the studio.