ANNEÈ OLOFSSON

About

Anneè Olofsson´s profound and uncanny work deal with complicated family relations and relations of power. At the same time they explore the artist’s own possessions, personal fears and traumas and allow for different interpretations depending on the viewer´s own history and experiences.

Her art has a penetrating quality which makes it unforgettable. With an iconography that carnally and directly comments on the tension between detachedness and affinity, time and aging, she works primarily with analog photography, video and sculpture. Olofsson returns repeatedly to her own body as an unrestricted artistic tool. Her parents have had important roles in her stagecraft as well. Bodies become symbols which tell not only of our inscrutability, but of our human limitations as well. In Anneè Olofsson´s space, persons are tightly bound within a compact blackness, and the human presence therein has the power to instill as much life as death into spatiality.

In her art she works with a clear surrealistic twist, she uses autobiographical material to explore mother-daughter and father-daughter relations in a way that inevitable gets under the skin of the viewer. It´s about growing up, about solitude, about fear of growing old, and about how distance and alienation come with all human relationships. Represented by SeMA(Seoul Museum of Art), MoMA(Museum of Modern Art)New York, USA and Moderna museet(and others) in Stockholm, Sweden.

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