My artistic work is founded in photography, both as an artist and as a freelance photographer based in Stockholm. My images are based on the mundane; familiar or unfamiliar surroundings, sometimes seemingly exotic. I am also a member of the constellation KK+TF, (Klara Källström + Thobias Fäldt).
I use photographs as fragments to create new stories beyond their original context.
I see the camera as the perfect tool for collecting. In some ways, my method is comparable to archeology; I collect existing materials for cataloging. I index the images but define the categories in a self invented manner. I use the image collection to see what it can retell about the visible, or if something can grow from the light of a flash. The collection allows creating new stories and the core of the method is the possibility of building visual tales through already given clues.
Blackdrop Island Series
All Images are Courtesy of the Artist
During the past years I have been working on two larger series: Gingerbread Monument and Blackdrop Island.
Gingerbread Monument was published as a book in 2008. The images are accompanied by Viktor Johanssons’ poems. The Gingerbread Monument series has also been shown in various exhibitions as a projection with music by Jonas Nordborg. I collected the photographs between 2006 and 2008, mainly in Sweden, where I come from.
In contrast to Gingerbread Monument, Blackdrop Island plays with the possibility of digging a hole through planets to see what it looks like on the other side.
The visual idea is the same as in Gingerbread Monument, but the stage where the play takes place has become estranged. Viktor Johansson has again written a poetic work, not of the images but of a place he has never visited.
Blackdrop Island will be published as a book in 2011.
