Nathalia Edenmont
dal 27/4/2005 al 28/5/2005
Segnalato da
27/4/2005
Nathalia Edenmont
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Solo exhibition. The body of work consists of portraits of animals placidly sitting in hand-blown vases and other sumptuous containers. Rabbits and other animals appear wearing splendid collars and seem aristocratic. But are they really alive? The camera confronts the viewer with a moment frozen in time that suspends the borders between life and death.
Solo exhibition
Edenmont was brought up in the former Soviet Union. She moved to Sweden twelve years ago. Having one foot in both cultures and belonging to neither gives her a remarkably sharp eye for the cultural differences and moral paradoxes of both.
The body of work consists of portraits of animals placidly sitting in hand-blown vases and other sumptuous containers. Rabbits and other animals appear wearing splendid collars and seem aristocratic, almost royal.
But at the same time we are faced with questions: Are they really alive? What makes them so docile? The camera confronts the viewer with a moment frozen in time that suspends the borders between life and death. The image and the technologies of image making challenges and transgresses social conventions and taboos.
Image:
George W
C-print mounted on Perspex
Variable Dimensions, 2003
Ed. of 6
Camera by Per Hüttner
Wetterling Gallery
Kungstradgården 3
111 47 Stockholm
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