I am a Swedish artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Sweden and NYC. I think of my work as ‘performative investigations’. These research projects usually grow over extended periods of time and result in several works in the form of film/video, photography, text/artist publication and installation. Often the starting point is a visit to a site, historical archive and/or collection, but it can also be another artist work.

I have a background in creative writing and text continues to be a crucial part of my practice. Central questions are issues of implicit or explicit censorship, authorship, translation and representation in the ethnographic and temporary exhibition. I am also very interested in contracts, collaboration and shared authorships that can challenge – or extend -  traditional definitions of artistic practice.

In my projects I often use methods borrowed from sociology and anthropology, but the outcome and dissemination of the results are different. As an artist, my investigations involves an exploration of the material processes of the medium (film and photography) and the context where the work is shown (the museum, gallery, designated site) in addition to the subject matter. In other words: I am continually exploring what it means for me as 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. This type of reflexivity leads me back to structural film and conceptual art practices of the 1960’s, which directly or indirectly inform my work processes.