The Seven Works of Mercy

2023

The Seven Works of Mercy

The Seven Works of Mercy is a video installation inspired by Caravaggio's altarpiece with the same title dated 1607 and located in Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples. In the painting, Caravaggio merges characters drawn from both legends, mythology and the Old Testament to interpret “the seven works of mercy”: To feed the hungry, to…
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The Cinematic Grace of a Video Artist’s Gaze

Unlocking Passages by Helen Broms Sandberg Text by Marco Müller, Director of Venice Film Festival, at the preview, Palazzo Farnese. April 2010. What are we asked to do tonight? To go and look and see what we find at the bottom of Video, looking to its side at first, looking at that part of Cinema…

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Unlocking Passages

Jacquelyn Davis A dual video projection displaying the fantastical world of Queen Christina Alexandra (1626-1689) as imagined by a confined writer who suffers from amnesia is coupled with an unhindered view into this same writer’s personal, imprisoned space. Helen Broms Sandberg’s Unlocking Passages proves more gripping than the more standard photography exhibitions that the Kulturhuset…

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Vindlande minnesbilder

METAFORER Helen Broms Sandberg visar i ett poetiskt videokollage på minnets opålitlighet och på den tunna gränsen mellan vad som ses som normalt och inte. Unlocking passages Genre: Fotografi Var: Kulturhuset, Sergels torg I Helen Broms Sandbergs videoinstallation Unlocking passages är minnet gestaltat som än mer komplext. Hon visar hur minnet, flyktigt och opålitligt, varken…

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Unlocking Passages

Vresna Prekopic 10 January 2012 There is something Lynch-esque about the whole experience. Although the room I walk into is black, not maroon velvet, it nevertheless feels like encountering the dancing dwarf in Twin Peaks. Hypnotic and disturbing.I sit down to the far left on the hard bench and my gaze is transfixed to the…

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