Swedish Video Art at the CCS
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Annika Eriksson, Video still
Le temps du corps…et en corps is a selection of Swedish video art that mystifies and delights. The different artists’ work is loosely connected through the theme of “the body”, which recurs in different ways throughout the pieces. They are also linked by their flirtation with the absurd. As is often the case with video art, the narratives are unclear and the spectators are left floundering. A hooded character goes about town spraying invisible graffiti, a bald man bathes in a shallow sea that is so frothy it looks like milk and, best of all, a man jogs along a riverside path singing opera. It is a bizarre and welcome dose of Swedish “nonsense” (the press release said it, not me) – the perfect prelude to tea and cake in the café.
Le temps du corps…et en corps is on at the the Swedish Cultural Institute until 18/04/10
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