Sara Sjölin
12.04.-26.04.18:
Rika djur
Sara Sjölin
12.04.-26.04.18: Rika djur – Sara Sjölin
Rika djur (engl. rich animals) is a dramatized compilation of video recordings made between 2002 and 2005 by Sara Sjölin, her close friend and accomplice My, and Sara’s extended family. It uses this rough biographical material to examine communication across generations, technologies and species.
One might label the film a bio-com, edited with a humorous, tender gaze at Sara’s own, as well as her family’s, desire to document and glorify everyday situations and moments. The film is a playful portrait of this desire and a testament to how the camera nourished and magnified the theatrical aspects of a tightly-knit community in a small Swedish town.
In the audio piece Eva, direct observation blends with speculation to paradoxically create a connection where there can be none, or one that isn’t known. By putting forth prejudice and passed-on mythological ”knowledge” – basically anthropomorphic – about snakes, it is as if Eva sheds the skin of interspecies relations.
Sara Sjölin (b. 1991 in Ytterjärna, Sweden) completed her Masters at The Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen in 2018. She currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Text by Kettil Kasang
Press Release
Rika djur (engl. rich animals) is a dramatized compilation of video recordings made between 2002 and 2005 by Sara Sjölin, her close friend and accomplice My, and Sara’s extended family. It uses this rough biographical material to examine communication across generations, technologies and species.
One might label the film a bio-com, edited with a humorous, tender gaze at Sara’s own, as well as her family’s, desire to document and glorify everyday situations and moments. The film is a playful portrait of this desire and a testament to how the camera nourished and magnified the theatrical aspects of a tightly-knit community in a small Swedish town.
In the audio piece Eva, direct observation blends with speculation to paradoxically create a connection where there can be none, or one that isn’t known. By putting forth prejudice and passed-on mythological ”knowledge” – basically anthropomorphic – about snakes, it is as if Eva sheds the skin of interspecies relations.
Sara Sjölin (b. 1991 in Ytterjärna, Sweden) completed her Masters at The Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen in 2018. She currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Text by Kettil Kasang
Press Release
All pictures by James Bantone