Annika Strom
dal 3/4/2003 al 3/5/2003
Segnalato da
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.
'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
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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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