The title-giving painting, a corner shop with personal service, depicts exquisite products and delicacies. French red wine, blue crabs and herring native to the Western Atlantic, as well as various sausage and cheese products, are offered for sale alongside simple, unpackaged groceries. They seem to symbolizse a disappearing shopping experience and a changing consumer world.
Jonsson’s approach is steeped in visual and cultural narratives—referencing Westerns, mythological figures like Dionysus, and other iconographies—yet he resists overtly narrative-driven storytelling. Instead, he focuses on capturing the quiet, significant moments of pause, often highlighting the tension between inaction and impending action. His figures, with their subtle gestures and poised expressions, evoke a sense of suspended motion, as though poised at the brink of something unspoken, perhaps even unknowable. The man in the supermarket, a seemingly small part of the painting’s narrative, may be seen as a metaphor for these moments of tension.