Sharon Lockhart
16 Apr - 29 Jun 2014
SHARON LOCKHART
16 April - 29 June 2014
For 20 years, American artist Sharon Lockhart has been a leading artist in the international art scene. But her photography and film works have been shown relatively little in Sweden. That is now about to be changed – Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present a large-scale solo exhibition of Lockhart's work in spring 2014.
Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present the first large-scale solo exhibition in Scandinavia of American artist Sharon Lockhart. For the past two decades, Lockhart has portrayed individuals and their communities, showing aspects of their everyday lives in moving and still photography. She belongs to a generation of artists who, during the 1990s, turned their attention to the everyday, to the subjective, the human. Lockhart is also an artist who draws inspiration from the filmic and, in turn, her work has had a great impact on the development of film as a means of expression in the visual arts. Borrowing working methodology from documentary photography and film, as well as ethnology and anthropology, Lockhart combines these aspects with a distinct, minimalist aesthetic. Lockhart’s work inhabits the middle ground between the photographic and the filmic, and emphasises the relationship both maintain to time and space. Her photographs are meticulously staged, as if they were frozen, documentary theatre pieces, while the slower pace maintained in her films remind one of still photography. Sharon Lockhart’s artistic working methods have influenced many of her contemporary colleagues – Swedish counterparts include acclaimed artists such as Ann-Sofi Sidén, Johanna Billing and Annika Eriksson.
In her practice, Lockhart often illuminates the forgotten and the overlooked. Her working process involves long periods of research in a given location, where she familiarizes herself with the local community, often forging deep friendships and initiating a strong collaboration. She has worked together with factory workers in Maine, a female clam digger in a male-dominated profession, Japanese schoolgirls, and children living in former Eastern-block Łódź, Poland. Her meticulous fieldwork is then transformed into poetic tableaux of still and moving imagery.
16 April - 29 June 2014
For 20 years, American artist Sharon Lockhart has been a leading artist in the international art scene. But her photography and film works have been shown relatively little in Sweden. That is now about to be changed – Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present a large-scale solo exhibition of Lockhart's work in spring 2014.
Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present the first large-scale solo exhibition in Scandinavia of American artist Sharon Lockhart. For the past two decades, Lockhart has portrayed individuals and their communities, showing aspects of their everyday lives in moving and still photography. She belongs to a generation of artists who, during the 1990s, turned their attention to the everyday, to the subjective, the human. Lockhart is also an artist who draws inspiration from the filmic and, in turn, her work has had a great impact on the development of film as a means of expression in the visual arts. Borrowing working methodology from documentary photography and film, as well as ethnology and anthropology, Lockhart combines these aspects with a distinct, minimalist aesthetic. Lockhart’s work inhabits the middle ground between the photographic and the filmic, and emphasises the relationship both maintain to time and space. Her photographs are meticulously staged, as if they were frozen, documentary theatre pieces, while the slower pace maintained in her films remind one of still photography. Sharon Lockhart’s artistic working methods have influenced many of her contemporary colleagues – Swedish counterparts include acclaimed artists such as Ann-Sofi Sidén, Johanna Billing and Annika Eriksson.
In her practice, Lockhart often illuminates the forgotten and the overlooked. Her working process involves long periods of research in a given location, where she familiarizes herself with the local community, often forging deep friendships and initiating a strong collaboration. She has worked together with factory workers in Maine, a female clam digger in a male-dominated profession, Japanese schoolgirls, and children living in former Eastern-block Łódź, Poland. Her meticulous fieldwork is then transformed into poetic tableaux of still and moving imagery.