Maria Friberg
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"Still lives #3", 2004
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered 6/6 on verso. C-print on Fujiflex paper mounted on wooden panel 170 x 248 cm. The image is in two jointed parts. Total edition of 6 + 2 AP.
Provenance
A gift from the artist to the current owner.
Literature
Maria Friberg e.a, "Maria Friberg", 2008, illustrated fullpage in colour plate 23.
Maria Friberg e.a, "Maria Friberg", 2005, illustrated fullpage in colour plate 2.
More information
Som ett foster i moderlivet ligger mannen tryggt omsluten bland ålderdomliga böcker i skinnband. Maria Friberg har sedan nittiotalet bjudit sin allt större publik på gåtfulla, starka och befriande fantasifulla iscensatta bilder av män. De flyter stilla i bassängvatten, sitter inklämda i bilar, ibland sover de bland vita lakan eller så är bara underkroppen synlig där de sitter kostymklädda vid ett bord.
Det männen haft gemensamt i Marias bilder sedan snart tjugo år är att de just tycks flyta i tillvaron. Allt rör sig och det kan gå precis hur som helst. Katastrof eller triumf. I det här fotografiet är det alldeles stilla. Det är som om mannen har hittat hem och inte vill vara någon annanstans än just där - bland sina böcker.
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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