Days of Eyes 2, 2014,
pigment print on acid free paper, wooden frame, 63 x 175 cm
MARIA FRIBERG
Communicate Over Vast
Distances
5 December 2014 – 31 January
2015
press release
Pi Artworks London is
pleased to announce Maria Friberg’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Friberg belongs to a
generation of Scandinavian artists who rose to fame in the 90’s that are often
referred to as the
Nordic Miracle, a name coined in the late 90’s after a seminal survey
exhibition at
the Musee d’art
Moderne, Paris. For Communicate over vast distances, Pi Artworks has curated a
selection of both new
and older photographic and video works that will give a comprehensive overview
of the artists’
practice as well as underscore some of the broader themes that run through her
work.
Maria Friberg creates
pristinely composed photographic and video tableaus that capture individuals
and small groups in
inert, meditative states. These supine figures are engaged in distinctively
passive
and introverted
actions, such as concentrating on their handheld technology, listening to
music, asleep
prone on a bed, or
simply reclining in what appears to be a state of extreme apathy. Their blank,
expressionless faces
prevent the viewer from reading their emotions. Each figure lacks any visible
physical or emotional
interconnectedness with anyone else while simultaneously appearing completely
at ease with his or
her surroundings.
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