January 2023
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With her unique expression, which refers both to surrealism and to the documentary aesthetics of the 1970s, Jenny Källman is an important representative of the Swedish photo-based art of recent decades. Her carefully staged photographic
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With her unique expression, which refers to both surrealism and the documentary aesthetics of the 1970s, Jenny Källman is an important representative of Swedish photo-based art of recent decades. Her carefully staged photographic works often take their environments from anonymous urban landscapes, “non-places”, with hidden or turned away young bodies and faces. But her image spaces can also be abstract and are then built up and structured by the elements of photography: shapes and bodies in motion, light and shadow, reflections and reflexes. At the Academy of Fine Arts, she is showing a photographic mirror installation. During the opening, the music group Les Big Byrd played in the installation.
Jenny Källman (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm. She is educated at the Gothenburg School of Photography and at the Stockholm College of Arts, Crafts and Design, where she graduated in 2002. She has had a large number of solo exhibitions, at Björkholmen Gallery in Stockholm, David Risley Gallery in Copenhagen, etc. She has also participated in several influential group exhibitions, including Artipelag's exhibition "The Visible" (2014), which was the first to highlight works by a new generation of artists working with photography as a means of expression, and in Moderna Museet's highly acclaimed "Golden Sunset" (2017–2018) with photographic works recently acquired for the museum's permanent art collection.
