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Karin Alfredsson
17 December 2021 – 13 February 2022
During the winter, photographer Karin Alfredsson shows "The Arctic Ocean" in the film room of Liljevalchs+.
Karin Alfredsson is a photographer with a attraction to untouched nature; it can be primeval forest in Jämtland or, as in this work, endless waters and ice excrement that fascinate at the North Pole.
On the lookout for climate change, the icebreaker Odin pushes itself up through water and ice. Karin Alfredsson is on the journey, who has signed on as a field assistant and who with her camera follows the ship's almost invisible movement forward. It roars, it creaks, the flatbed splits, all while nature – the seemingly infinite – changes its light. It's beautiful. It's melancholy.
Karin Alfredsson's work Norra Ishavet touches on our own smallness in the face of nature's might. The great in the small and in that an opportunity for reflection on our own being.
The film is 20 minutes long and congenially soundtracked and scored by composer Sebastian Öberg, former member of the Fläskkvartetten.
Karin Alfredsson was born in 1966 on Frösön in Jämtland and has lived and worked in Stockholm since 1989. She is represented at Moderna Museet, the National Art Council, Stockholm Art and a dozen other institutions and has exhibited in a wide range of galleries and art galleries around Sweden. In 2019, she was awarded the Liljevalch and San Michele Foundation's newly established Capri Scholarship.
The exhibition is shown in Liljevalchs+.
