Artists

Maria Friberg

Press release

We are delighted to be able to start this season with Maria Friberg’s third personal exhibition in our gallery.

Since she emerged on to the artistic scene in the 1990’s, Maria Friberg (1966, Sweden) has been exploring the dynamics that govern our time, by means of her painstakingly choreographed photographs and videos. Her images bring together a carefully controlled aesthetics and a sense of the uncanny. This unusual approach has been attracting a growing attention on the international scene to an artist who is already recognised as a significant figure in contemporary art from Scandinavia.

In this new exhibition, ‘Inherited Dreams’, specifically designed for LMNO, Maria Friberg proposes an in-depth exploration of inter-generational dynamics. She questions social roles, in particular those linked to masculinity, through the prism of generational inheritance/transmission. Like a thread stretching between tradition and modernity, ancestral practices and values clash with the imperatives of a world in rapid mutation.