Maria Friberg
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"Commoncause", 2008
Signed Maria Friberg and dated 2008 on verso. Edition 1/10 + 3 AP. C-print, laminate, wood 46 x 63 cm.
Provenance
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Literature
Maria Friberg, Lorella Scacco, Michelle Marie Roy, "Maria Friberg, Changed positions", 2016, illustrated on fullpage p. 47.
More information
Commoncause from 2008 is also a video loop with a duration of seven and a half minutes that was filmed on the main staircase at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Three hundred velvet-like spherical forms roll like amorphous balls down the imposing stone staircase. The muffled, bouncing sound creates the impression of an on-going flow. The oeuvre is an investigation of power structures and those who are marginalized or cast out of society as a result.
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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