Lina SELANDER's films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge; the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one.
Selander's films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. She examines the relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, language and image. The precise, rhythmic editing and use of sound create their own temporality and a strong inner pressure. Selander's oeuvre recurrently explores a fascination for the phenomena and technologies that make images possible, thereby enabling history to be documented. Montage is used in the films to juxtapose images, while entailing a potential loss of content. Image meets text in a flow where meaning arises from the ostensibly unrelated, like echoes through and between the works.
Her works constitute a dense archive of observations, occasionally in dialogue with other films, art or literature.
Selander has exhibited at the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva, London); Index-The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation (Stockholm); Moderna Museet (Stockholm); Galleri Riis (Stockholm); Galleria Tiziana Di Caro (Naples) and the VOX-Centre de l’image Contemporaine (Montreal). She has participated in international group shows such as the Venice Biennale 2015; Kyiv Biennale 2015; Seoul Media City Biennale 2014; Manifesta 2012; Bucharest Biennale 2010; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and she is selected for the International Competition in the 62nd International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, 2016.
Lina Selander lives and works in Stockholm (Sweden).
Selander's films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. She examines the relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, language and image. The precise, rhythmic editing and use of sound create their own temporality and a strong inner pressure. Selander's oeuvre recurrently explores a fascination for the phenomena and technologies that make images possible, thereby enabling history to be documented. Montage is used in the films to juxtapose images, while entailing a potential loss of content. Image meets text in a flow where meaning arises from the ostensibly unrelated, like echoes through and between the works.
Her works constitute a dense archive of observations, occasionally in dialogue with other films, art or literature.
Selander has exhibited at the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva, London); Index-The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation (Stockholm); Moderna Museet (Stockholm); Galleri Riis (Stockholm); Galleria Tiziana Di Caro (Naples) and the VOX-Centre de l’image Contemporaine (Montreal). She has participated in international group shows such as the Venice Biennale 2015; Kyiv Biennale 2015; Seoul Media City Biennale 2014; Manifesta 2012; Bucharest Biennale 2010; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and she is selected for the International Competition in the 62nd International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, 2016.
Lina Selander lives and works in Stockholm (Sweden).