Maria Friberg
"Boys are us"
Signerad Maria Friberg och daterad 2004 samt numrerad 3/10 a tergo. C-print monterad på aluminium 60 x 80 cm.
Provenance
Skärets Konsthall.
Exhibitions
"Boys are us 2", Skärets konsthall, 2005.
Literature
Cecilia Casorati, Iris Müller-Westermann; "Maria Friberg", Maria Friberg förlag, 2005. Motivet avbildad på helsida i färg.
More information
Bland annat representerad på
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
Norrköping Konstmuseum, Norrköping
Kiasma, Helsingfors
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art vid Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Designer
Maria Friberg was a Swedish artist who primarily worked with photography and videography. Her primary theme was masculinity, whereby she investigated the traditional male adopted roles and its properties which has through history been defined as "masculine". Since her breakthrough in the 1990s alongside other female photographers who were educated at Gothenburgs photography school, Friberg has offered his growing audience enigmatic, powerful, and imaginative staged images of men. They float tranquilly in pool water, are squeezed into cars, sometimes sleeping among white sheets, or only their lower halves are visible as they sit in suits at a table. She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references. Friberg likes to work in series, varying a motif across multiple works. Some of her most well-known series are "Still Lives" and "Almost There."
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