Marja Söderlund 21.8.-7.9. 2003

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

You are here

The views are within the pictures, but not exclusively there.

The pictures in the exhibition are spaces rebuilt from pieces: places where you can enter the picture, stumble. The horizon rotates all around but up turns out to be down and forwards can be through. The perspective is a kind of travel instruction. “You are here” is the viewer’s location, like looking for a place on a map. Yet it is possible to be somewhere else at the same time. Details may lead astray, somewhere else and to the edge.

If only it were possible to see around the corner already, to notice what is in between. You could get lost, disappear and be found again, counting on time. You could get immersed in a place or just stay in the expanding space of the picture, amongst the cardboard stage set.

Marja Söderlund

Shore I, 2003 chromogenic color print 71,5 X 46,5 edition of 5	Shore II, 1999 chromogenic color print 71,5 X 47,5 edition of 5
Losing the way, 2002 chromogenic color print 106 X 140 edition of 5	The history awaits with eyes closed, 2003 chromogenic color print 101 X 124 edition of 5
Mirage, 1999 chromogenic color print 67 X 100,5 edition of 5	On the edge of town, 2001 chromogenic color print 49,5 X 86 edition of 5
The way to the volcano, 2001 chromogenic color print 49,5 X 82 edition of 5	Untitled (The points of the compass), 2001 chromogenic color print 49,5 X 78,5 edition of 5
You are here, 1999 chromogenic color print 149,5 X 78 edition of 5	An island on the horizon i.e. earth is round and it's image flat, 2003 chromogenic color print 50 X 85,5 edition of 5
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