source: enarosdk

ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF’S PHOTOGRAPHS ARE RAZOR-SHARP, SENSUAL, AND EXTREMELY DISQUIETING. THEY REFLECT A PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY DOMINATED BY ALIENATION, FEAR, AND DREAMS. WE RECOGNISE THE THINGS WE SEE – FROM OURSELVES, FROM OUR HOMES, AND FROM NATURE – NEVERTHELESS, THINGS ARE NOT QUITE WHAT THEY SEEM. WE SENSE A LATENT UNEASINESS, THE IMMINENCE OF SOME UNEXPECTED OR TERRIBLE ACT, OR PERHAPS IT HAS HAPPENED ALREADY.

On seeing Annika von Hausswolff’s motifs of drawn blinds, empty living rooms with sinister objects, children with chain saws, and naked bodies in the forest, we encounter a world which, all at once, seems both familiar and strange. We enter a parallel world where objects exude presence while people appear absent.

Since the 1990s, Annika von Hausswolff has made her mark as one of Scandinavia’s major artists. Working in a conceptual, feminist, and analytical way with the photographic medium, she belongs to the circle of young fine-art photographers who view and utilise the photograph in a new and often filmic manner. Her photographs are charged with a great deal of mystery: often very surrealistic and filled with recurring motifs and personal references. Frequently, the numerous objects and materials which she reproduces in her pictures are reminiscences of her childhood such as the recollection of her mother’s beige-coloured nylons.

Annika von Hausswolff is preoccupied with the human psyche and the way we experience our surroundings. In the main, her pictures are about perception: our experience of what we see, and the idea of being looked at. She presents sight as one of man’s most irrational, coded, and selective senses. Especially scopophobia, the fear of being looked at, is at the centre of several of her pictures. By hiding behind an object, turning their backs on us, or covering their eyes, Hausswolff’s figures avoid direct contact with our gaze.
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source: magasin3

Annika von Hausswolff är född 1967 och bor och arbetar i Göteborg. Hon studerade på Sven Winquists fotoskola i Göteborg, 1987-89; Konstfack i Stockhom, 1991-94 och Kungliga Konsthögskolan, 1995-96.

Hon har haft separatutställningar på bland annat ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Danmark (2013); Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sverige (2008); Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sverige (2005); National Gallery of Denmark, Köpenhamn (2002); Bildmuseet Umeå, Sverige (1998); och Soros Center for Contemporary Art i Kiev, Ukraina (1997). Hon ingick i den nordiska paviljongen på den 48:e Venedigbiennalen (1999) och den 23:e biennalen i São Paulo, Brasilien (1996).

Hennes verk ingår bland annat i samlingarna i Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Danmark; Astrup Fearnley Collection, Museet för Modern Konst, Oslo; Fonds National d Art Contemporain, Paris; Hasselblad Center, Göteborg; KIASMA, Helsingfors; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; och The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum i New York.

Hon hade en separatutställning på Magasin III, Ich Bin Die Ecke Aller Raüme, 2008. Magasin III har en av de mest omfattande samlingarna av hennes verk i världen.