Maria Friberg
"Still lives #3 edition", 2005/2012
Signed Maria Friberg and dated 2014 and numbered AP 2/5 on verso. C-print, laminate, wood 47.8 x 70 cm. Edition 25 + 5 AP.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the current owner.
Literature
Maria Friberg m.fl, "Maria Friberg", 2005, illustrated on fullpage pl. 2.
Maria Friberg e.a, "Maria Friberg", 2008, illustrated on fullpage pl. 23.
More information
This motif also exists in size 170 x 248 cm in edition of 6 + 2 AP.
Artist
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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