ANNA KLEBERG THAM
ON AND ON
14 NOV - 20 DEC
Stack, balance, collapse,
idyll, play, violence,
discomfort, dystopia, memory,
repetition, rhythm, unrest,
celebration, absence, imagination,
apocalypse, childhood, structure,
and on and on and on and on…
We have the pleasure of presenting Anna Kleberg Tham’s first exhibition at Arsenalsgatan3. The exhibition consists of two series of new photographic works; On and On and San Michele, both from 2019. In these pictures, Anna Kleberg Tham continues to explore the human psyche through architecture, scale shifting, and how our understanding of the world around us is affected by our background and our experiences.
During a residency at Villa San Michele, Capri, Anna Kleberg Tham created cardboard models inspired by ruins and abandoned buildings. The cardboard houses were placed on top of each other in various combinations and then photographed, the resulting forms becoming the series San Michele. The houses gesture to the viewer and become a study in human mimicry and our ability to create different rooms, both mental and architectural.
In the series On and On (2019), the artist has returned to props that lingered in her studio for over twenty years. Miniature houses and trees from the strict order in the earlier series Modellhus from 2000 have now been arranged in seemingly impossible piles. Despite the playfulness, the images bring to mind the eternal question in photography: the staged, the documentary, and the relationship between the two.
In connection with the exhibition, Monday the 16th of December 2019 sees the launch of the book ”Anna Kleberg Tham 99-19, a retrospective”, a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work alongside new writings by Marie-France Rafael, Silvana Lagos och Jan Holmgaard. The book is designed by KÖLQVIST and published by Art & Theory publishing.
Anna Kleberg Tham (born 1970) lives and works in Stockholm. She works mainly in photography and film, and has studied at, amongst others, Stockholm’s Konstfack and Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Her work has frequently been shown in solo- and group exhibitions around the world, including Malmö Konstmuseum, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Galleri Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece, Athens Biennial, Sharjah International Biennal, Sharjah and the Mori Arts Center, Tokyo.
Read Håkan Nilssons review here (in Swedish only) >>>
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