source: hvasteraskonstmuseumse

Charlotte Gyllenhammar har konsekvent och med stor integritet etablerat sig som en av Sveriges främsta konstnärer. Sårbarhet och makt, identitet och perspektivförskjutningar är några teman som följt henne genom åren. I flera av hennes verk möter vi det utsatta och upproriska barnet, i förhållande till en hotfull omvärld.
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source: glasstressorg

Charlotte Gyllenhammar is considered one of the most important players on the Swedish art scene. Born in 1963, she lives and works in Stockholm. After having attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm in the late 1980s and specializing in painting, her interest in sculpture deepened at the Royal College of Art in London. Even during her studies, the artist made clear her interest in political and social contexts, including memory, inversion, the lack of freedom, the loss of innocence and a childhood violated, the realm of the unconscious and of the split personality, marginalization, the dualism of life and death, femininity and beauty, and, finally, hero worship. Gyllenhammar makes use of various media: 3D installations that combine sculpture, photography, print, video and projections, even common, everyday objects. She thus is able to produce surreal situations that create in spectators a sense of disorientation and deformation that leads to a new dimension of reality. She has created numerous works of public art for such leading institutions as the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial (2007) in Gothenburg, Sweden. For several years, her works have become part of the permanent collections of several museums, including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, and the Kiasma in Helsinki.
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source: wtoutiao

北欧许多城市里都有Charlotte Gyllenhammar的大型雕塑和装置。她出生于哥德堡，在哥德堡和斯德哥尔摩长大，也在纽约生活过一段时间，现在回到斯德哥尔摩。

在采访中Charlotte的很多作品都围绕“大”主题进行，比如说生存与死亡、活着的意义、身份认同等等。她认为，这些看似“大”的主题，对每个人都是最基础的问题。这些问题在人很早期时就会出现，很多问题都找不到答案，而她选择在艺术里找到了出口。1993年，Charlotte把一棵120年的老橡树倒挂在斯德哥尔摩市中心的十字路口，命题为“Die for you”，引起了轩然大波。城市的快速现代化发展所付出的代价总是很快就被忘记，在上世纪60年代整个市中心的Klara区被拆迁重建，现在变成了大型商场、酒店、办公楼等等。Charlotte说瑞典是一个喜欢向前看的国家，却忽略了很多美好的回忆，而一棵巨大的倒挂老橡树配上如此戏剧化的标题应该足以吸引注意力。开始时很多人不解，甚至是抗议，而恰恰这样的情绪就像那时拆迁给人们带来的感受一样。可过了一段时间后，人们对这个作品的好评大大超出了Charlotte的预料。

关于创作的过程，Charlotte通常会先有一些想法和画面，然后会试图破坏它们，营造一种冲突。在被破坏之后如果它们还能树立在那里，就会成为她的信仰。而当作品的主题超出个人经验，那种自我和非自我的挣扎也是一个必要的过程。她说：“有时候一些主题已经超出我自己，不再是我一个人的感情，所以我在创作的时候必须放下我自己，学会放弃，把自己交出去。可是没人告诉过我想要做到这一点有多么难。”