"Transmission I", 2010.
C-print silicone-mounted on glass 260 x 139.5 cm.
Cabinet Magazine, Issue 38 Summer 2010, illustrated.
Maria Friberg e.a, "Changed Positions", 2015, compare image p. 44 - 45.
Maria Friberg's "Transmission" project considers the automobile both as an icon of freedom and mobility and as a vehicle for irreversible environmental impact. The cars in the series were photographed from underneath while resting on a large sheet of glass, giving them the appearance of ships sailing on the surface of a calm ocean or airplanes crossing a clear, blue sky. By suppressing the fetishized visible figure of the car in favour of its infrastructural undercarriage, the images celebrate the automobile—whose beauty extends even to its functional core—even as they lament the ecological damage produced by this usually hidden machinery.
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