Maria Friberg
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"Still lives #5", 2005.
Signed Maria Friberg verso. Edition 2/6. Cibachrome, laminate, wood 180 x 230 x 5 cm.
Provenance
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Literature
Maria Friberg, "Maria Friberg", 2008, illustrated on pl. 21.
Maria Friberg, "Maria Friberg", 2015, illustrated on p. 60.
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Maria Friberg har sedan nittiotalet bjudit sin allt större publik på gåtfulla, starka och 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.
Maria Friberg arbetade med sviten "Still lives" under åren 2003-2007. Totalt ingår elva bilder i serien. Några av dem föreställer män som i olika positioner vilar inuti eller ovanpå sammanpressade bilvrak. Bilen är ett klassiskt manligt attribut men här har luften så att säga gått ur dem, de skapar istället en tydlig bild av samhällets årsringar där de ligger hårt sammanpressade i lager på lager.
De lackerade bildelarna har en glansig yta som påminner om sidentyger. Här framgår Maria Fribergs måleriska sida, ett drag som alltid återfinns i hennes bilder. Den monumentala storleken på ”Still lives #5” gör att verket får en stark materialitet och nästan upplevs som tredimensionellt. Kopplingen till den amerikanske konstnären John Chamberlains (1927-2011) banbrytande skulpturer är inte långt borta.
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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