Skiftningar inuti bilden av ett namn / Transpositions in the image of a name, 2009.


Water colour on paper.


Installation view.


Slide projection and sound piece.

In Kristina Bength’s installation at Botnic Studios the viewer meets a series of grand pictures that are conceptually connected. It is about a real person, Amanda Kristina Pedersen, who lived around the last turn of the century. She was a photographer and actress but was sentenced in Falun 1904 for fraud and forgery crimes. Pedersen had tried to hide whom she really was, and had lived under many different names, and medical records described her as hard headed and cunning.

Kristina Bength has studied Pedersen’s history and different identities, and reused photographic archive material and legal archive material concerning Pedersen, to assume a similar dubious role herself. In the exhibition we meet places and milieus that Pedersen has photographed and used as scenes, which reappear in Kristina Bength’s paintings and in a recorded reading of a verdict regarding Pedersen. Photography and theatre, the tools used by Pedersen in the art of fraud and forgery, appear as references in Kristina Bength’s interpretations.


Ninia Sverdrup (SE)
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Urban Scene


The Wheel - still from video.


Last Bahnhof, installation view.

Ninia Sverdrups latest video works is a series of short loops she calls “Urban Scene”. Sverdrup tries to find places in the urban environment that look like a “natural setting” through her camera. At the “stage” the everyday life is performed. Nothing is directed and nothing special happens. In the editing she makes a concentration on this nothing special. Sverdup treat the everyday-images very subtle, but all sounds are reconstructed. She wants to be absorbed by the situation and the moving details, and fall deeper and deeper into the framed image.
                 

Anders Holmer (SE) & Pierre Mosser (SE)
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Hus för två främlingar / House for two strangers, 2009.


Collaborative outdoor architecture project - detail.


Installation view.



JONA ELFDAHL (SE)
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Paria, 2004-2008.


Still from video, 30 min.


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