Maria Friberg
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"Duration 4", 2013
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered AP 1/2 on verso. Total edition of 5 + 2 AP. C-print laminated to panel 130 x 103 cm.
Exhibitions
Another example exhibited at:
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris.
Connersmith, Washington DC, "Between Solitude and Belonging", 15 February – 29 March 2014.
More information
This is how this specific work and the series "Duration" was described during her solo exhibition at Connersmith in Washington DC:
"Friberg’s series of photographs, "Duration" (2012-13) pictorializes the physical and emotional effects of technology. Posing figures in historic interiors, the artist emphasizes how portable electronic devices shape our postures and structure our physical interactions with one another. Her images suggest that, as we increase our ability to communicate globally and escape into virtual worlds, our capacity to interact with one another face to face erodes. Staging adults and children in settings redolent of faded splendor, Friberg underscores the distinction between a new generation, who is growing up entirely immersed in the digital age, and an older generation who, in their youth, experienced more direct forms of personal interaction. She visualizes the disconnect between the old and new ways of communicating in the distances that separate the children from the adults, as well as in the contrast between the currency of the technological devices and the ambience of the antiquated spaces their users occupy."
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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