THE SOCIETY
The title of the work draws its inspiration from an actual place. I have been looking for, and constructing, environments, scenes and events that are based on memories from the small community where I grew up. This place has got a name, but usually it is simply referred to as ”the society”. I see the work as a puzzle of pictures that deals with the borders between the documentary and the staged, the real and the unreal, the past and the present. It is also a story about a rural area that is becoming increasingly abandoned.
Documentation from the work ”The society” exhibited at Göteborgs Konsthall (Click to enlarge):
Documentation from the work ”The society” exhibited at Seoul International Photography festival
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The work has also been exhibited at:
Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki:
Centre de Photographie de Lectoure:
Finnish museum of photography, Helsinki
Hasselblad center, ”From the collections”, Gothenburg
Centrum för fotografi and Karlskrona Konsthall