ANN-SOFI SIDÉN BELONGS TO A GE...
Ann-Sofi Sidén belongs to a generation of artists who developed an anti-formal approach in the 1980s using performance and film as essential components of their work. Her portayals of the human mind resemble research projects into the history of mentality, where the recurring subjects are vulnerability, exposure, surveillance and control. She seeks out the hidden conflicts and frictional twilight zones of our contemporary power structures.Concepts such as normality, abnormality and grasp on reality are central in Ann-Sofi Sidén's works. Being constructed in a way that puts the beholder off balance temporarily, they seem to be aiming to disarm our constant need to control, or perhaps even to 'survey', the situations we are exposed to.