kultureflash

Issue no. 81

D.I.E, 2000
(DVD, 29 min. loop)

Annika Larsson

With images of a man's mouth smoking or a hand holding a dog's tail, Annika Larsson gently shows us that video is coming into its own. No longer about durational documentation nor testing the frontiers outside film and television, video artists -- most spectacularly, Doug Aitken and Matthew Barney -- are taking the production values of the industry and turning them to art-making. Two men playing tennis in an office, a man smoking a cigar, another two stroking a dog's tale, it is the mid-level shot, strong in surface detail, that gives away Larsson's voyeuristic eye. Some call it observation, others fetishistic -- whatever the case her observational work, blended over with Tobias Bernstrup's music, allow her themes (voyeurism, male eroticism, domination and exploitation) as well as sensual pleasure to come to the surface. Currently in a major solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Nuremberg, she has exhibited extensilvely around the world in places such as New York, Paris, Venice and her native Sweden, but is less known in these isles apart from her ICA show in 2002.

Annika Larsson (bn. 1972, Stockholm, Sweden) now lives and works in New York and Stockholm.

Representation:
Andrehen-Schiptjenko, Stockolm, Sweden
Andrea Rosen, New York, USA

KultureFlash Related Links:
40-15 stills
D.I.E. stills
Dog stills
Pink Ball stills
Poliisi stills

Additional Links:
Artist website
CV
Various info
Stills
Solo show at Kunsthalle Nuremberg (2004)
Dog at Cranbrook Art Museum (2003)
Dog and Poliisi at ICA (2002)
Dog and Poliisi at Andrea Rosen (2002)
tema celeste Pink Ball review (2003)
Artforum Dog and Poliisi review (2002)
Art in America Dog and Poliisi review (2002)
Daniel Birnbaum on Annika Larsson (2002)
Beckers Prize (2002)