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Annika Strom
dal 3/4/2003 al 3/5/2003

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3/4/2003

Annika Strom

Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York

'Everything in this show could be used against me'. In Annika Strom's new video, 16 minutes, an array of ever-changing images is accompanied by original music written and performed by the artist. The songs of this video are love lyrics mixed with banal images. Strom's new work investigates the need to structure memory and the ways we cope with emotion.


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'EVERYTHING IN THIS SHOW COULD BE USED AGAINST ME'

Since 1995, Annika Ström has been making videos in which reality is used as the raw material for a collage of personal observations. Known for her videos in which she reflects on the role of the artist or examines our relationship to private life; the artist utilizes 'strategies usually associated with the sphere of pop...and transfers them into the sphere of art.' (Herrmann, Matthias, Secession: Annika Strom, 1999).

In Annika Ström's new video, 16 minutes, an array of ever-changing images is accompanied by original music written and performed by the artist. The songs of this video are love lyrics mixed with banal images. Ström's new work investigates the need to structure memory and the ways we cope with emotion. The video includes different people displaying personal family snapshots and remembering relatives through dated images. We are also presented with the artist in her studio. The corresponding works on paper hanging on the walls of the gallery are the same as those in the video. Together they make a subtle critique of a romanticized view of an artist alone in the studio making work.

The quirky details of everyday life that appear in the video function as both individualistic and universal. The intelligent composition stars the artist, her family and friends recorded in the artist's present-day surroundings. The resulting work transcends the field of pop for an artistic production that is partly amusing and ironic, and partly serious and critical of the situations at hand. Consequently, these diaristic recordings, which are simplistic in nature, become recognizable for their rich illustrations of the incidental moments that often go unnoticed.

The work of Annika Ström is in the permanent collection of Konstmuseet, Malmö, Sweden; FNAC (Fonds National d'Art Contemporain), Paris, France and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Recent solo exhibitions include c/o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany; Gallerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden; Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles; Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, Italy and Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria.

OPENING: FRIDAY, APRIL 4TH, 6 - 8 PM
Annika Ström will perform in concert at the opening of the exhibition.

EXHIBITION DATES: APRIL 4 - MAY 3, 2003
GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10 - 6 PM

FOR FURTHER EXHIBITION INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE GALLERY AT: TEL. 212 645 7335 FAX. 212 645 7835

NEXT EXHIBITION: LIAM GILLICK MAY 9 - JUNE 21, 2003

Amy Adler, Jeff Burton, Nathan Carter, Miles Coolidge, Jason Dodge, Trisha Donnelly, Ceal Floyer, Pamela Fraser, Anna Gaskell, Liam Gillick, Annika Von Hausswolff, Carsten Holler, Jonathan Monk, Diego Perrone, Simon Starling, Annika Strom

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