Installation view from the solo show In Transit at Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea, Bari, Italy 2024. Untitled Painting #12 – 14
Inre vatten / Inner Water
The department for dialysis, Växjö Central hospital
Installation view from the department for dialysis, Växjö Central hospital, 2023. Commissioned by Region Kronoberg. Inre vatten / Inner Water, photo manipulation in eight ceilings.
GRÄNSLAND
Feb 23 – April 30, Konstmuseet i Skövde
Here, Carolina Jonsson is now showing a two-part video, Gränsland 1 from 2021, and Gränsland 2 from 2023. The thematic starting point for these videos is a series of generic sculptures of children created in the 1940’s and 50’s. At this time just after the war, public art was often used to educate people and create a common narrative for a better future. The children in these sculptures, mostly naked young girls seen through the eyes of male artists, became symbols of hope for a better tomorrow, but also a symbol of health and the natural order of things. These sculptures got Carolina Jonsson thinking about how she, as a female artist, would choose to portray a child today, and how a child today would want to be portrayed. The answer, she realized, was anything but simple. In a time when we are surrounded by an unprecedented flow of images, and people´s self-awareness is at an all-time high, the child's encounter with the camera becomes ambivalent. The pure joy of a child playing is present, but also glimpses of insecurity, self-awareness, and self-control. This becomes especially visible in the second part, Gränsland 2, which was filmed earlier this year. Here the child has become a teenager. The teenager’s desire to be a child and to play is still apparent, but not without a conflict of interest, making the playing soft and beautiful as well as aggressive and frustrated.
The works in the exhibition are created in collaboration with the depicted child, actor Emmylou Almén and the musician/composer Anders Hagberg.
Installation view from Konstmuseet i Skövde. Gränsland, part I and II.
“Det är ett mångtydigt bildflöde, ett äventyr för ögat, med bilder av ett slag jag vare sig sett eller kunnat föreställa mig. Ljus och reflexer, hisnande bildvinklar. Vem kan säga vad som är abstrakt eller föreställande. Trots att ögat är ständigt upptaget av bildernas märkliga blandning av skönhet som både skapas och utmanas av de vitala rörelserna förs tillägnelsen mot både intellektet och oroar i känslodunklet. Stillbilder ur verket bär en annan, men även de en oomtvistligt fängslande skönhet. Jag blev helt fascinerad av det här verket och såg videoloopen gång på gång.”
TEASER
GRÄNSLAND, del II
Extract: 30 sec of 6 min
TEASER from Gränsland, del II. Music by Anders Hagberg.
Skaraborg Contemporary
Katja Beckman Ojala, Carolina Jonsson, Jonas Liveröd and Samot Nosslin
Nov 12 – jan 7. Lidköpings Konsthall.
RELEASE av 19 fotografiska fanzines i samarbete med CFF, Centrum för fotografi
Skövde Konstmuseum, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Centrum för fotografi, Borås Konstmuseum
From the Solo Show Mellanakt at Galleri PS, Gothenburg. 2021. Gränsland, del 1 / Twilight Zone, part 1, video installation. (5 sec of 1:30 min.) Music: Anders Hagberg.
From the Solo Show Mellanakt at Galleri PS, Gothenburg. 2021. Landscape #7 & 8, photography . Girl with a Phone, Stereoscopic photography. Twilight Zone, part 1, video installation. Landscape #9 & 10.
Video documentation of the Solo Show Mellanakt at Galleri PS, Gothenburg. 2021. (3:25 min)
“Det bästa verket i mina ögon är bilden “Flicka med telefon”. Det är en tät och laddad bild. Den har barockens speciella bildspänning där dunkel bryts av inkommande ljus som i sin tur förtätats av mötet med mörkret. Den där laddningen av vardagen, stämningen och känslan är tidlösa. Det är en fascinerande upplevelse att möta den här bilden. Den är fylld av stillsam och samtidigt intensiv vardagsdramatik. Upplevelsen förstärks av arrangemanget med stereoskopet som ytterligare lyfter fram närvaron med tredimensionalitet. Det både stärker och skärper sinnen och tillsägelse.”
From the Group Show Efterkänning at Kungsbacka Konsthall 2020. The video installation Paintings of Ecolonia #14. Projection on acrylic glass on wall 140x250 cm.
/extract/ 1:30 of 13:26 min. The format is a cut-out from 9:16 to 16:9.
Untitled Painting #14
The video relates to the space that exists between humans, humans and nature, and between that which is natural and that which is man-made. The girl/fairy tale being acknowledges the dichotomy between humans and nature, while at the same time questioning it. However much we twist and turn, we are still stuck in a tradition where humans are on the outside of nature, and in order to approach it, we take to mythical beings, fairy tales and magical thinking. We consider ourselves as more than nature, and the taming of nature, as well as of our own needs, is deeply rooted in our culture. A fairy tale being may be read as a reflection of humans and the society in which they live. A fairy tale being stroking a rabbit gets to test the modern human’s recognition of nature communicating with us.
![The site-specific video installation Hologram of Ecolonia #30 in the Solo Show Portal at Pannrummet, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg [Sweden] 2019. Projection on walls, floor, pipes and grid. Infinity loop. No sound Photo documentation: Bert Leandersson](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b14ef2f75f9ee2b64700be3/1615656052933-4D3AKX7ISQ7011P6O2OD/Hologram+%2330-high.gif)
The site-specific video installation Hologram of Ecolonia #30 in the Solo Show Portal at Pannrummet, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg [Sweden] 2019. Projection on walls, floor, pipes and grid. Infinity loop. No sound
Photo documentation: Bert Leandersson
From the Group Show Efterkänning at Kungsbacka Konsthall 2020. The video installation Paintings of Ecolonia #12. Projection on acrylic glass 92x165 cm. Photo: Maja Kristin Nylander
Still from the video installation Untitled Painting #12.
Untitled Painting #12
The video relates to ”the in between” that exist amongst humans, human and nature and the natural and the manmade. A physical and mental experience is presented through an abstract and sensual interpretation of a human shape placed in nature; a roadwork landscape that is both beautiful and daunting, recognizable and alienated. Is this a broken nature or a landscape full of anticipation in the process of changing?
Spread from Women Cinemakers, Special Edition, Vol.28
Link to interview: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/48e32cdae1.html#page/98
Kållängens Tingshus. 2019. Untitled Painting #13. Video installation. Projection on chimney wall.
Untitled Painting #13
The video explores what might be perceived as beautiful, it does however not seek to romanticize or glorify our environments. It wants to bring the work past our preconceived notions about what we expect to be confronted with in a certain encounter. The poetic movement, through an alienated human body, creates untested combinations of movements, gestures and situations that thereby could lead to new experiences and implications. The potentials of a newfound language offer us a chance to discover ourselves anew. Here, it is about awakening, discover and get to know ourselves as part of nature.
The video is a paraphrase on the painting Meadow Elves by Nils Blommér.