Sara Jordenö is a Swedish-born, NYC-based artist. Jordenö studied at Malmö Art Academy and received an MFA from UCLA in 2003. Jordenö’s projects take the forms of film/video, text and photography, which are presented in visual archives. Her recent work involves found objects and animation, using materials such as graphite and plastic. Central themes are issues of agency, labor time and the habitual acts of everyday life.

Jordenö often use methods borrowed from the social sciences, but the outcome and dissemination of the results are different. In addition to the subject matter, her investigations involve examinations of the material processes of her medium and the context where the work is shown (the museum, gallery or other designated site). Jordeno’s work explores what it means for an artist to take the role of an observer, and how that type of action can be documented and presented in the context of cultural production.

Jordenö’s work has been shown at Muscarnok, Budapest, 5th Berlin Biennial, The Modern Museum, Stockholm, and 41 Cooper Gallery, NYC and has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, ArtSlant and the Swedish literary magazine Kritiker. Her solo museum show Diamond People was recently on view at Bildmuseet, Umeå. Forthcoming projects include an issue of Printed Matter’s Artists & Activists series and The Strange Case of Carbon, a book on artistic fieldwork.