Maria Friberg
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'Almost there #2', 2000
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered AP 2/2 verso. Total edition of 6 + 2 AP. Printed in 2006. C-print mounted to glass 120 x 150 cm.
Exhibitions
The series "Almost there" has been exhibited extensively within Sweden and abroad, for example at:
Moderna museet, Stockholm and Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, "Organising Freedom", 2000.
Norrköpings konstmuseum, 2001.
NIKOLAJ Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, "Maskuliniteter", 3 November – 30 December 2001.
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, "Boys are Us", 26 January - 13 April 2008.
Fotografiska, Stockholm, "In Flux", 14 September - 14 October 2012.
Passagen konsthall, Linköping, "Between solitude and belonging", September 2013.
Bohusläns museum, Uddevalla, "Maria Friberg", 1 February - 6 April 2014.
Literature
Maria Friberg e.a, "Maria Friberg", 2005, compare pl. 11.
Maria Friberg e.a, "Maria Friberg", 2015, compare p. 62 and 63.
More information
This photo by Maria Friberg is part of the series "Almost there" from 2000. It is a suite of five different pictures with similar motifs of men in suits floating around the pool's water. With an unusually strong symbolism, Friberg has explored in several projects what it means to be a man. Friberg worked with the series just when the IT boom was about to enter a new phase that eventually led to the so-called IT crash. In March 2000, the bubble burst and caused major financial losses. In her photo series "Almost there" Friberg has succeeded in illustrating the chaos that the costumed young entrepreneurs and investors suddenly found themselves in.
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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