Fotografiska
Fotografiska is a photography and film based museum with no permanent collection, but continually changing exhibits. During our visit we were able to see the Ellen von Unwerth: Devotion! collection that features photographs from her 30-year-long fashion photography career. Every single photograph held so much power that I was inclined to photograph it all. The actual curation was really well executed and categorised the photos into feelings which made it much easy to process as an exhibition.
The Extraordinary World of Christian Tagliavini was the second exhibition which documented his bizarre, surreal creations. Christian Tagliavini pieces together cleverly staged photographs to mimic his perceptions of different eras, past, present and future. The attention to detail within the playing card photographs is extraordinary. Paper cuts act as costumes for heavily made-up characters.
The work is strangely brilliant and has to be seen to fully appreciate!
The work is strangely brilliant and has to be seen to fully appreciate!
Finally we viewed: Manmade Land Hans Strand which is a collection of photographs detailing the impact of humans destruction of the earth. The images on first glance don't seem real. After reading the description of 'colours of poison' it becomes evident that the photos depict oil spill and water pollution, which really causes the viewer to think.
As a whole, Fotografiska on this occasion had three completely different, but equally brilliant exhibitions. Being a comparatively small museum, it is much easy to process the three different works and appreciate their context in Swedish culture.
As a whole, Fotografiska on this occasion had three completely different, but equally brilliant exhibitions. Being a comparatively small museum, it is much easy to process the three different works and appreciate their context in Swedish culture.
