Maria Friberg
"Still lives (11)", 2007
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered 1/6 on verso. C-print, laminate, wood 100 x 300 cm. Edition 6 + 2 AP.
Provenance
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm. Acquired in 2008 by the current owner.
Exhibitions
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, "Boys are Us", 26 January - 13 April 2008.
Literature
Maria Friberg e.a, "Maria Friberg", 2008, illustrated on spread pl. 19.
More information
This motif have been exhibited at, among others:
Skövde Konsthall, 2007.
Kristinehamns konstmuseum, 2008.
Östergötlands länsmuseum, 2009.
Museum Anna Norlander, Skellefteå, 2012.
Bohusläns konstmuseum, 2014.
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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