selected-works – Helen Broms Sandberg

January 28, 2020 selected-works

Unlocking Passages

Two channel HD video installation with sound I Duration: 36:29 min. loop I Screening format:16x9 I 2010- 2011 I Edition: 7+1 AP I Featuring: Agneta Ekmanner, Udo Kier, Greta Elettra Broms, Amanda Mallia (voice over) I Distribution: Inter Media Art Institute, Düsseldorf I © Helen Broms Sandberg Credits Written and Directed by: Helen Broms Sandberg…

January 28, 2020 selected-works

Dust is the Flesh and Blood of Time

Four channel video installation I Duration: 17 min. (loop) I 3:4 I Four monitors mounted in the floor under glass I C-prints taped to the wall. A reconstruction of an abandoned house of a disappeared woman. The space like a portrait imagined through traces and objects. Video and photographs representing different times; the camera for…

January 28, 2020 selected-works

Still Leben

B/w and color prints mounted onto glass I Heigt 150 cm I Mirror images as shadow images, after images, ghost images, reflected duplications, double images as different identity conditions. I started working with the portraits after an experience while visiting a palace in Venice, famous for its ghoststories: “Entering a dark room the only source…

January 28, 2020 selected-works

Linea Infinita

C-prints prints mounted onto glass I Heigt 150 cm I 2007/present

January 28, 2020 selected-works

Ceremony of Construction/Destruction

Two channel video installation with sound I Duration: 9:27 min. Loop I Screening format: 3:4 I 1998 I Edition: 7+1 AP Ceremony of Construction/Destruction takes the religious ritual Corpus Domini as its starting point: During the days of preparation all the flowers in the fields are devastated. Millions of petals are torn off by hundreds…

January 28, 2020 selected-works

Folds

Artist’s book I Published by Holy Dog Production I Page layout by Johan Jenelius I Printed in Italy by Tipolitografia F. Begliomini I Helen Broms Sandberg Folds includes images, diary notes and quotations from Joseph Brodsky’s texts and poems. The diary notes are related to or inspired by Brodsky’s texts about time, memory and loss…

January 28, 2020 selected-works

The Bride and the Snake

Three channel video installation with sound I Duration: 07:40 min. loop I Screening format: 3:4 I 1997 I Edition: 7+1 AP I © Helen Broms Sandberg. Synchronized projections showing different scenes from the same story. A story that was told by the mother of a friend and said to be true: During a wedding in…

January 28, 2020 selected-works

Untouchable Nature/Future Garden

January 28, 2020 selected-works

From a Surrogate Soil

Permanent installation at Husby subway station, Stockholm 10 sculptures inserted in the rock, spread over a 30 metres large wall I Cibachromes of paintings cast in polystyrene I Glass. A 30 meters long white wall is the first thing one sees when coming down the escalator. At first sight, from a distance, the sculptures builds…