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…
On Interpretation and Identification/Parallel Stories
A conversation between Helen Broms Sandberg and Carmelo Marabello 2011 Unlocking Passages recounts on two screens the obsessive life of a man who has succumbed to an obsession: to narrate and relive the life of a dead queen, Christina of Sweden. The Queen relives through the bodies of two actors, a child and in the…
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…
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…
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…
Dimorare: Arte, Sementi e Grani a Villanovaforru in Sardegna
Partecipa al progetto “Dimorare” a Villanovaforru in Sardegna, l’artista svedese Helen Broms Sandberg. Si tratta di un progetto che prende inspirazione dalle molteplici riflessioni filosofiche sulla natura dell’artista Joseph Beuys con il quale vogliamo confrontarci per riappropriaci dei valori della cultura sui grani italiani e europei in rapporto al consolidarsi della colonizzazione globale: Cina, Stati…