Maria Friberg
"Boys Are Us", 2005
Signed Maria Friberg on verso. Edition 8/10. C-print, laminate, aluminum 60 x 80 cm.
Provenance
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Literature
Cecilia Casorati, Iris Müller-Westermann, "Maria Friberg", 2005, reproduced on full page.
More information
Edition 10 + 3 AP.
The motif was displayed in the exhibition "Boys are us 2" at Skärets konsthall, 2005 and are included in the following collections:
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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