Grant recipients 2016: Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation
31 May - 20 Aug 2017
GRANT RECIPIENTS 2016: MARIA BONNIER DAHLIN FOUNDATION
31 May - 20 August 2017
Jasmin Daryani and Hilde Retzlaff are the 2016 Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation grant recipients. On the surface, Jasmin Daryani and Hilde Retzlaff’s work can appear quite different, yet they both take a similar approach in their selection of materials and locations. For example, utilising the street as a place to make new discoveries, or the experience of being marginalised either as an individual or material. Bonniers Konsthall will exhibit a selection of both artists’ work, and we look forwards to following them over the course of their careers.
Born in 1988, Jasmin Daryani studied at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg and the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, where she received her Master’s Degree in 2015. Hilde Retzlaff was born in 1990 and has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. She will receive her MA from the Swedish Royal Institute of Art this year.
Hilde Retzlaff works in an invigorating and intuitive manner when collecting materials, where her method or approach is a crucial part of the working process. By deconstructing existing materials, such as packaging, carpets, posters and sacks, she reveals a new way of understanding the properties and qualities of the actual materials themselves. Through the creation of collage and sculpture, Retzlaff very consciously devotes attention to and reshapes a material that would otherwise end up in a rubbish heap.
In her work, Jasmin Daryani visits concepts of representation, belonging and migration. Through her use of photography, text, silk-screen and archive materials, she examines social and political constructions, using specific events to uncover alternative stories. In her piece Where Do We Go From Here?, Jasmin Daryani presents burnt-out cars in various suburban settings, characteristic of her interest in the media’s portrayal of the suburbs, and issues pertaining to the city centre and periphery. To Disembody has its starting point in Jasmin Daryani’s birth in war-torn Iran. Through a series of lightboxes and photographs, she shows an explosion as a force and a phenomenon, where the aftermath remains in the form of still images.
31 May - 20 August 2017
Jasmin Daryani and Hilde Retzlaff are the 2016 Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation grant recipients. On the surface, Jasmin Daryani and Hilde Retzlaff’s work can appear quite different, yet they both take a similar approach in their selection of materials and locations. For example, utilising the street as a place to make new discoveries, or the experience of being marginalised either as an individual or material. Bonniers Konsthall will exhibit a selection of both artists’ work, and we look forwards to following them over the course of their careers.
Born in 1988, Jasmin Daryani studied at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg and the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, where she received her Master’s Degree in 2015. Hilde Retzlaff was born in 1990 and has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. She will receive her MA from the Swedish Royal Institute of Art this year.
Hilde Retzlaff works in an invigorating and intuitive manner when collecting materials, where her method or approach is a crucial part of the working process. By deconstructing existing materials, such as packaging, carpets, posters and sacks, she reveals a new way of understanding the properties and qualities of the actual materials themselves. Through the creation of collage and sculpture, Retzlaff very consciously devotes attention to and reshapes a material that would otherwise end up in a rubbish heap.
In her work, Jasmin Daryani visits concepts of representation, belonging and migration. Through her use of photography, text, silk-screen and archive materials, she examines social and political constructions, using specific events to uncover alternative stories. In her piece Where Do We Go From Here?, Jasmin Daryani presents burnt-out cars in various suburban settings, characteristic of her interest in the media’s portrayal of the suburbs, and issues pertaining to the city centre and periphery. To Disembody has its starting point in Jasmin Daryani’s birth in war-torn Iran. Through a series of lightboxes and photographs, she shows an explosion as a force and a phenomenon, where the aftermath remains in the form of still images.