Beata Fransson’s artistery investigates our way of seeing and how photography as a medium has affected man’s view on ourselves. Through photographs and large scale phptpgraphic installations, Fransson creates a space that exfoliates, both psychologically and visually. With small changes in perspective and subtle visual takes she toys with our way of seeing in relation…
In the summer of 1927, the groundbreaking housing exhibition Weißenhofsiedlung opened in the southern German city of Stuttgart. The exhibition was the first of its kind, bringing together a new generation of functionalist architects, and it aimed to be a display of the new architectural style, also known as Neues Bauen. The prototype village in…
If we really understood that we were about to disappear, would we still do it? The question is not my own, but the author Sara Stridsberg’s. In a radio program she describes that death is inscribed in our bodies, we cannot avoid it and yet there is no subject that makes us humans more anxious.…
In 1968, the iconic Blue Marble photograph of Earth was created. Not only was it an image of stunning beauty – it also represented a new perspective on life on earth, an essential and radical shift in self-awareness. The astronauts described a profound sense of connectedness, a feeling of timelessness. An overwhelming experience, raising questions…
Cultural nationalism strives to create and maintain visible borders between the insiders and aliens. The Latvian town and regional community Zilupe (Blue River) shows us the simultaneous presence and absence of the boundary. Situated in the east of Latvia, Zilupe borders to Russia and Belarus. Individuals of several ethnic origins live in this rural region,…
The exhibition Shadows in war presents three documentary short films, which in different ways portrays people who live in areas of conflict. In films from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Croatia we get to know the everyday life within the reality of war. As a dark mist, the fear of what will happen next, is creeping upon…
More often it is easier to spot what we have from a distance than when it is right in front of us. How often have we been looking for our glasses, only to find out later that they were already resting on our nose, or looked for the keys that were already on the hook that they always…
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