Moment – Lina Selander
14 Nov 2015 - 28 Feb 2016
Lina Selander
Around the Cave of the Double Tombs, 2010
© Lina Selander
Text in collaboration with Fredrik Ehlin and Oscar Mangione
Around the Cave of the Double Tombs, 2010
© Lina Selander
Text in collaboration with Fredrik Ehlin and Oscar Mangione
MOMENT – LINA SELANDER
14 November 2015 – 28 February 2016
Curator: Lena Essling
Lina Selander is one of Sweden’s most innovative moving image artists. Her films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge; the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one.
Her works revolve around images as memories, imprints and representations. Lina Selander was born in 1973 in Stockholm, where she still lives and works.
Lina Selander’s films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models,where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. She examines the relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, language and image. The precise, rhythmic editing and use of sound create their own temporality and a strong inner pressure. Selander’s oeuvre recurrently explores a fascination for the phenomena and technologies that make images possible, thereby enabling history to be documented. Montage is used in the films to juxtapose images, while entailing a potential loss of content. Image meets text in a flow where meaning arises from the ostensibly unrelated, like echoes through and between the works.
Selander’s works constitute a dense archive of observations, occasionally in dialogue with other films, art or literature. Their subject matters often stem from historic or ideological junctions, where one system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge. While her exhibition at the Venice Biennale describes a movement between utopia and collapse, the presentation at Moderna Museet shows three works that further explore actual or figurative borders.
14 November 2015 – 28 February 2016
Curator: Lena Essling
Lina Selander is one of Sweden’s most innovative moving image artists. Her films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge; the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one.
Her works revolve around images as memories, imprints and representations. Lina Selander was born in 1973 in Stockholm, where she still lives and works.
Lina Selander’s films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models,where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. She examines the relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, language and image. The precise, rhythmic editing and use of sound create their own temporality and a strong inner pressure. Selander’s oeuvre recurrently explores a fascination for the phenomena and technologies that make images possible, thereby enabling history to be documented. Montage is used in the films to juxtapose images, while entailing a potential loss of content. Image meets text in a flow where meaning arises from the ostensibly unrelated, like echoes through and between the works.
Selander’s works constitute a dense archive of observations, occasionally in dialogue with other films, art or literature. Their subject matters often stem from historic or ideological junctions, where one system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge. While her exhibition at the Venice Biennale describes a movement between utopia and collapse, the presentation at Moderna Museet shows three works that further explore actual or figurative borders.