With the help of film and moving images the artist Conny Karlsson explores identity – it’s mechanisms and origin. He uses subjective storytelling and narrative experiments with a focus on how gender and roles are constructed, through a close visual study of the involuntary blurred boundary between social, political and intimate identity. In his work, Karlsson wants to initiate a discussion on norms and values, how these control our everyday life and interact within a social agreement and structure. His work blends documentary material with fictional storytelling, and by using fragments of film, text and image he creates new perspectives and new meaning.
Karlsson is currently based in Berlin (D) and Stockholm (SE).
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»The Secret Cabinet«
28th January–29 July 2012
in a hidden location – Berlin
curator Cristina Navarro
www.thesecretcabinet.com
Kalmar Museum of Art (Solo)
Kalmar, Sweden
Spring 2013
curator Bengt Olof Johansson
»Limp Wrist« (Solo)
28th March–21 April 2012
Alingsås Art hall, Sweden
curator Medeia Soknor Ekner
»Untold Stories«
7 May–26 June 2011
at Kunstihoone – Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
curators Anders Härm, Airi Triisberg, Rebeka Põldsam
»Book on the Fritz #02«
29 April–1 May 2011
at Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
curators Book on the Fritz
»HÄR II«
at Kalmar Museum of Art, Kalmar, Sweden
27 Nov 2010–27 Feb 2011
curators Kim Einarsson,
Malin Nilsson & Anna Norberg
Awarded the Swedish Art Grants
Committee's two year working grant