For a Time Light Must Be Called Darkness
Solo exhibition at Argos – Centre for Art & Media, Brussels
Curated by: Andrea Cinel
2017.09.24–2017.12.17
For a Time Light Must Be Called Darkness is the first solo exhibition in Belgium by Lina Selander (b. 1973), one of today’s most important Swedish moving image artists. Central in Selander’s work is the analysis of how junctures are depicted, how events are reported, and how things are portrayed.
For a Time Light Must Be Called Darkness features six video installations, most of them made in collaboration with Oscar Mangione. These works take us to Bredäng (a suburb in south-west Stockholm), Berlin, the West Bank, Pripyat, and Chernobyl. All of these places are the occasion and the starting point for broader reflections about our present in relation to historical facts. Selander visits these sites and like an archaeologist digs in their past, their monuments, museums, and archives. She looks for visual documents, focuses on details, and analytically sketches new hypotheses. In this way, she tries to retrace hidden links between distant imageries, correspondences, and analogies, in order to create new narratives. In her essayistic approach, Selander combines her own texts and footage along with still images, quotes, and archive material. In this way, a constant tension springs within these multiple-layered audiovisual works and reminds us that seeing is never an innocent act.
Lina Selander in collaboration with Oscar Mangione
Exhibition coordination: Hajar Leyhan
For a Time Light Must Be Called Darkness is kindly supported by IASPIS.
