Annika von Hausswolff
25 Aug - 25 Sep 2011
ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF
25 August - 25 September, 2011
We are proud to open the season with a solo show by Annika von Hausswolff. The opening takes place on Thursday September 25th between 5-8 pm.
Annika von Hausswolff has become known for her staged photographic images and objects. Her new works are based on a documentary project examining a world in rapid change and flux. The exhibition OVERHAUL is a continuation of the collaboration with Jan Jörnmark, Associate Professor of Economic History in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Von Hausswolff and Jörnmark have travelled around Europe and USA in search of places to photograph for the book “The Abyss” (to be published in October 2011). Annika von Hausswolff has selected symbolically charged images from this vast material for her show at the gallery.
The exhibition consists of photographic documents of houses and places left behind. Abandoned by the people who once inhabited them, urban explorers and graffiti artists are now the only ones who enter these buildings through closed doors and windows. In spite of the lack of legitimate activity in these places, the photographs provide a narrative of man’s symbiosis with the buildings she erects. These are temporary abodes which like train stations accompany our journey through life. In this context the title OVERHAUL becomes both a statement and a question. Is our world in urgent need of renovation or is an improvement already in progress?
The documentary imagery has been von Hausswolff’s principal characteristic but her photographs have until now always been carefully staged with a clear conceptual approach. Her new body of work is both clearly rooted in her early fascination for documentary photography inspired by photographers like Anders Petersen and Christer Strömholm but they are also leaving the last decades of staged imagery behind. Still though, many elements in von Hausswolff’s new works refer to her early works.
Annika von Hausswolff has through the years used the desolated space as a motive in both two- and three-dimensional form. A strong feeling of after the fact has been evoked and the melancholia that her new works might cause has always been present in her images. Her gaze is still the same but the boundaries of the documentary are stretched and bent.
Annika von Hausswolff, Associated Professor of Photography at the School of Photography at the University of Gothenburg, was most recently shown in Stockholm at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 2008 in the retrospective exhibition ”Ich bin die Ecke aller Räume" and in the exhibition Another story with works from the collection at Moderna Museet. She has recently been seen in solo exhibitions at La Conservera, Centro de Art Contemporáneo, Murcia, Spain (catalogue) and the Turku Art Museum, Finland.
25 August - 25 September, 2011
We are proud to open the season with a solo show by Annika von Hausswolff. The opening takes place on Thursday September 25th between 5-8 pm.
Annika von Hausswolff has become known for her staged photographic images and objects. Her new works are based on a documentary project examining a world in rapid change and flux. The exhibition OVERHAUL is a continuation of the collaboration with Jan Jörnmark, Associate Professor of Economic History in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Von Hausswolff and Jörnmark have travelled around Europe and USA in search of places to photograph for the book “The Abyss” (to be published in October 2011). Annika von Hausswolff has selected symbolically charged images from this vast material for her show at the gallery.
The exhibition consists of photographic documents of houses and places left behind. Abandoned by the people who once inhabited them, urban explorers and graffiti artists are now the only ones who enter these buildings through closed doors and windows. In spite of the lack of legitimate activity in these places, the photographs provide a narrative of man’s symbiosis with the buildings she erects. These are temporary abodes which like train stations accompany our journey through life. In this context the title OVERHAUL becomes both a statement and a question. Is our world in urgent need of renovation or is an improvement already in progress?
The documentary imagery has been von Hausswolff’s principal characteristic but her photographs have until now always been carefully staged with a clear conceptual approach. Her new body of work is both clearly rooted in her early fascination for documentary photography inspired by photographers like Anders Petersen and Christer Strömholm but they are also leaving the last decades of staged imagery behind. Still though, many elements in von Hausswolff’s new works refer to her early works.
Annika von Hausswolff has through the years used the desolated space as a motive in both two- and three-dimensional form. A strong feeling of after the fact has been evoked and the melancholia that her new works might cause has always been present in her images. Her gaze is still the same but the boundaries of the documentary are stretched and bent.
Annika von Hausswolff, Associated Professor of Photography at the School of Photography at the University of Gothenburg, was most recently shown in Stockholm at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 2008 in the retrospective exhibition ”Ich bin die Ecke aller Räume" and in the exhibition Another story with works from the collection at Moderna Museet. She has recently been seen in solo exhibitions at La Conservera, Centro de Art Contemporáneo, Murcia, Spain (catalogue) and the Turku Art Museum, Finland.