I Remember, video stills

I work predominantly with video, sound and audio-visual installation, using both original and appropriated material in my work. Video became my preferred medium in the last year of my education at the Master of Fine Arts programme at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and has since then been my medium of choice. Although sound plays a very important part in my work, it has so far never been separated from the visual - the two media interact with one another to emphasise and discover new structures in the work.

I Remember, video still

In the single-channel video work I Remember, appropriation has been used to construct a personal narrative, with the use of dark and ominous imagery and soundscape, to explore the repression of memory. The fragmented narrative is built out of black and white images altered with a narrative text and moves between past, present and dreamlike sequences.



In Peaches, a combination of text and image has been used to create a dialogue between the documentation of memory and image and the constructs of fiction. The personal narrative is represented by a recurrent text that describes memories, experiences, events and physical things - within and outside the image frame - connected with the surroundings and interior of an old house. It is a story about two friends and their innocent games, about love and loss in an adult world.

My work revolves around and deals with questions about our perception and experience of reality and the power of memory. Ideas for new work are drawn from personal experiences, an encounter with a place or a person, through visual and theoretical research or a simple moment in time. Subject matter varies but there are themes and formal film-making concerns that can be identified throughout my work: questions on the nature of memory and how it affects our view on reality, the individual acts of remembering and how we relate our memories to and synchronise them with social settings and histories, and the camera's role as a transformer of the real.

Peaches, video still