A Series of Images About You
Solo exhibition, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar
Curated by: Helena Holmberg
2014.09.13–2014.11.23
Lina Selander belongs to a new, interesting generation of artists. They are united by an approach that embraces a diversity of aspects in the artistic work. In Selander’s case, it involves a mix of science, poetry, society, history, and a meta-narrative that has to do with seeing and the actual situation in which we take part of the work, in equal parts and with respect for the entire complexity of existence. Art can be true only if allowed to deal with several things at once. This, however, does not mean that her art is difficult to approach. It is highly visual and assumes full confidence in us as viewers. There is no right reading of her work, just a series of challenging opportunities.
In A Series of Images About You, Selander in collaboration with curator Helena Holmberg, has put together four different installations from 2007 to 2014, which together constitute the first major presentation of her art. The exhibition also contains an “archive” of individual films and a number of books by Lina Selander. The books should be seen as artist books rather than as “exhibition catalogues”, i.e., they are independent projects in the form of books, in various ways relating to her other artistic work.
As curator, this is the third exhibition Helena Holmberg is contributing to Kalmar konstmuseum. Holmberg is also director for Kunsthall Trondheim where Lina Selander’s Silphium was exhibited this spring. Holmberg has previously curated Encounters by Manon de Boer (2013) and the group exhibition A Complicated Relation, part I (2012). It is invaluable to have partners with initiated and dedicated knowledge, her work adds to the growth of both the museum and the art. We are deeply grateful.
A very warm thank you to Lina Selander for preparing this exhibition and for the confidence she has shown Kalmar konstmuseum through this. It is with pleasure we offer Kalmar County, Sweden, and the world an opportunity to learn more about an art of a particularly concerned interest.
Text by: Bengt Olof Johansson, Museum Director
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Kunsthall Trondheim
Photo: Michelangelo Miskulin
