Press release

Annika Larsson
2 - 25 February
MAGASIN d'en Face

Born in Stockholm in 1972, lives and works in New York.
Her filmed performances are projected, larger than life, in exhibition spaces. Their subject matter is based on male stereotypes, which she captures in banal situations such as smoking a cigar (Cigar, 1999) or walking a dog (Dog, 2001). The probing is slow and takes place in minimalist settings to the sound of electronic music by Tobias Bernstrup. The video New Gravity also explores aesthetic codes and male behaviour; it shows adolescents being lulled by electronic music. Annika Larsson films these bodies in close-up, dwelling on the face and feet, the points of contact that keep them in a social space that is constantly slipping away from them, even so. We see the 3D image of a man, facing one of the boys. This unreal figure reveals a world in which the inconsequential technological image suddenly becomes a dangerous model, one that the boy tries to follow.

New Gravity, 2003, 29’
courtesy Andrehn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm