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Folds/Notebooks 2017-present

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Folds/Notebooks

Folds/Notebooks is an ongoing series of works comprising photographs and texts mounted on recycled books - a kind of diary-style notebook. It examines how images and text interact and interfere, avoiding any form of illustration or interpretation between the two languages. In the last series Nola I used Giordano Bruno's texts instead of my own…
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The Seven Works of Mercy

A multi-channel video installation of 7 synchronized screens Duration: 18 min. loop. Screening format: 16×9 4k. Sound by Marco Schiavoni. Year 2022 Edition: 7+1 AP Video production by Filippo Genovese (Morgana Studio) A single channel documentation of the first performance (2021) at the Basilica of San Pietro (Tuscania) A series of large scale photographs Sculptures…
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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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The Bride and the Snake

Three channel video installation with sound I Duration: 07:40 min. loop I Screening format: 3:4 I 1997 I Edition: 7+1 AP I © Helen Broms Sandberg.  Synchronized projections showing different scenes from the same story. A story that was told by the mother of a friend and said to be true: During a wedding in…
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From a Surrogate Soil

Installation including: Floor piece I 300x300 cm I Cibachromes of paintings cast in polystyrene, each 50x50x20 cm I Optic white glass I Reliefs I Height 220 cm. concrete, pigment, lead I C-prints. In a repeating dream I find myself in a room where the floors are covered with roses; red, unnaturally big, perfect, stiff, lifeless.…
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