Maria Friberg
"Blown out" 1999
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered 4/6 on verso. C-print, laminate, mounted on aluminum 180 x 250 cm.
Exhibitions
Moderna Museet, Stockholm "Organising freedom", 2000.
Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, "Sensitive", 2000.
Literature
Galleri Charlotte Lund (e.a), "Maria Friberg - Trinity", 2000, reproduced spread plate no. 7.
Maria Friberg, "Maria Friberg", 2005, reproduced on full page plate no 5.
More information
The motif can be found in the following collections:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Malmö Konstmueum, Malmö
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich
Martin Z Margulies, Miami
Anthony and Heather Podesta, Washington D.C.
Edition 6 + 2 AP.
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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