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Unlocking Passages

Vresna Prekopic 10 January 2012 There is something Lynch-esque about the whole experience. Although the room I walk into is black, not maroon velvet, it nevertheless feels like encountering the dancing dwarf in Twin Peaks. Hypnotic and disturbing.I sit down to the far left on the hard bench and my gaze is transfixed to the…

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Dimorare: Arte, Sementi e Grani a Villanovaforru in Sardegna

Partecipa al progetto “Dimorare” a Villanovaforru in Sardegna, l’artista svedese Helen Broms Sandberg. Si tratta di un progetto che prende inspirazione dalle molteplici riflessioni filosofiche sulla natura dell’artista Joseph Beuys con il quale vogliamo confrontarci per riappropriaci dei valori della cultura sui grani italiani e europei in rapporto al consolidarsi della colonizzazione globale: Cina, Stati…

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Unlocking Passages

Two channel HD video installation with sound I Duration: 36:29 min. loop I Screening format:16x9 I 2010- 2011 I Edition: 7+1 AP I Featuring: Agneta Ekmanner, Udo Kier, Greta Elettra Broms, Amanda Mallia (voice over) I Distribution: Inter Media Art Institute, Düsseldorf I © Helen Broms Sandberg The story about a writer who has succumbed…
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Dust is the Flesh and Blood of Time

Four channel video installation. Duration: 17 min. (loop) 3:4 Four monitors mounted in the floor under glass. C-prints taped to the wall.  A reconstruction of an abandoned house of a disappeared woman. The space like a portrait imagined through traces and objects. Video and photographs representing different times; the camera for investigation, documentation: Natural size…
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Still Leben

Mirror images as shadow images, after images, ghost images, reflected duplications, double images as different identity conditions. I started working with the portraits after an experience while visiting a palace in Venice, famous for its ghoststories: “Entering a dark room the only source of light comes in through the chinks in the closed blinds. There…
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Ceremony of Construction/Destruction

Two channel video installation with sound I Duration: 9:27 min. Loop I Screening format: 3:4 I 1998 I Edition: 7+1 AP Ceremony of Construction/Destruction takes the religious ritual Corpus Domini as its starting point: During the days of preparation all the flowers in the fields are devastated. Millions of petals are torn off by hundreds…
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Folds

Artist’s book I Published by Holy Dog Production I Page layout by Johan Jenelius I Printed in Italy by Tipolitografia F. Begliomini Folds includes images, diary notes and quotations from Joseph Brodsky’s texts and poems. The diary notes are related to or inspired by Brodsky’s texts about time, memory and loss but also by my…
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