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Maria Friberg

(Sweden, Born 1966)
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60 000 - 80 000 SEK
5 540 - 7 390 EUR
6 150 - 8 200 USD
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55 000 SEK
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Maria Friberg
(Sweden, Born 1966)

"Alongside Us #4", 2007

Signed Maria Friberg and numbered 5/5 verso. Total edition of 5 + 2 AP. C-print mounted on glass with UV laminate, 113 x 140 cm.

Exhibitions

Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm, "Maria Friberg, Almost There.", 16 September 2023 - 3 March 2024.

Literature

Joanna Persman, review "Almost there", Svenska Dagbladet, 16 September 2023, illustrated.

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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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