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Aeronauter (Aeronauts) is a commission for Södersjukhuset hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. In preparation for this work, I was researching classical ceiling paintings in churches and profane buildings. I was always fascinated by the cherubim in these images. They have many…
Video work by artist Maria Friberg. From President Bush First speech to the Congress.
No time to fail.
Urban Nature is Göteborg Konsthall’s first exhibition under its own direction since its re-opening in April, 2001. The concept is broad and the spatial interaction of the works strengthens them, shifts perspectives and creates new implications. The title suggests a…
Friberg’s signature is men in suits, such as Somewhere Else (1998). The most known are the protagonists of Almost There (2000) who vacantly stare straight ahead while floating in a pool. The series was photographed parallel to the burst of…
Church windows. Commission proposal for Linköpings domkyrka (Linköping Cathedral), Linköping, Sweden.
For weeks, Maria Friberg spent time between 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. sitting in a restaurant in the center of Stockholm’s IT district. She sat and watched the passing business people, occasionally speaking with them. She studied them thoroughly, watched how…
Three bodies have fallen from the sky. They know nothing about who they are, or where they’ve landed. Their bodies cast sharp shadows on the ground. Is this planet Earth? One crawls, one sits, one stands. It’s as though the…