Lena Mattsson

Kultur under covid-19 - en mobilfilmsserie

Tova Mozard, konstnär och Isak Sundström, konstnär och musiker

Johan Jönsson, författare

Max Gustafsson, satirtecknare.

Elena Wolay, musikjournalist, DJ, klubb- och festivalarrangör

Jean Louis Huhta, kompositör, musiker och DJ

Dana Sederowsky, konstnär

Torkel Rasmusson, textförfattare och musiker

Maya Eizin Öijer, konstnär

Konstnärerna Lena Mattsson och Ola Åstrand bad ett tiotal kulturarbetare filma sig själva med mobiltelefonen och berätta hur de tänker om det som händer våren 2020. I dessa poetiska och intima filmer blir vi inbjudna till att höra berättelser om allt från pågående och inställda projekt, ändrade arbetssituationer, tankar om pandemin men också en del hopp och inspiration. Lena Mattsson har sammanställt, klippt och redigerat materialet. Musiken är skapad av Noah Jaskoviak Åstrand om inte annat anges. Serien är kuraterad av konstnärerna Lena Mattsson och Ola Åstrand och producerad av Borås Konstmuseum. Video stills av Lena Mattsson, 2020.

Lena Mattsson och Ola Åstrand gör också en utställning om svensk 90-talskonst för Borås Konstmuseum. Utställningen som bär titeln Generation skulle ha öppnat den 5 juni men är på grund av covid-19 framflyttad till i hösten 2020. Mer information om denna kommer separat framöver.

Först ut är curatorerna själva, Lena Mattsson och Ola Åstrand, som reflekterar över vad som händer med kulturen under Covid-19. De är båda konstnärer som känt varandra i många år och samarbetat i flera projekt. De debuterade som konstnärer på 90-talet.

Med premiär den 7 maj kommer därefter nya filmer måndagar, onsdagar och fredagar kl 10 mellan 11/5-3/6 2020 Filmerna kommer att visas här på hemsidan och på vår youtube kanal. länk till annan webbplats

För mer information gå in på Borås Konstmuseum hemsida

https://boraskonstmuseum.se/offentlig-konst/undersida-offentlig-konst/kultur-under-covid-19.html?fbclid=IwAR1S3LIlm0WofMfD_v_65jvTq7tn1P_-Cf1E8MzClyt6GYzBICxebpYYCLU

Måndag 11 maj

Maya Eizin Öijer, konstnär.

Onsdag 13 maj

Torkel Rasmusson, textförfattare och musiker.   

                                                

Fredag 15 maj

Dana Sederowsky, konstnär.

Måndag 18 maj

Jean Louis Huhta, kompositör, musiker och DJ.

Onsdag 20 maj

Elena Wolay, musikjournalist, DJ, klubb- och festivalarrangör.     

                         

Fredag 22 maj

Max Gustafsson, satirtecknare.                    

                       

Måndag 25 maj

Johan Jönsson, författare.

Onsdag 27 maj

Tova Mozard, konstnär och Isak Sundström, konstnär och musiker 

Fredag 29 maj

John Skoog, konstnär.

Måndag 1 juni

Stina Fors, koreograf, performance artist och trumslagare.

Onsdag 3 juni

PotatoPotato, normkritisk och samhällsaktuell teater, performance och scenkonst.

Kultur under covid-19 - en mobilfilmsserie

Kultur under Covid-19

Konstnärerna Lena Mattsson och Ola Åstrand bad ett tiotal kulturarbetare filma sig själva med mobiltelefonen och berätta hur de tänker om det som händer våren 2020.

I dessa poetiska och intima filmer blir vi inbjudna till att höra berättelser om allt från pågående och inställda projekt, ändrade arbetssituationer, tankar om pandemin men också en del hopp och inspiration.

Lena Mattsson har sammanställt, klippt och redigerat materialet. Musiken är skapad av Noah Jaskoviak Åstrand om inte annat anges. Serien är kuraterad av konstnärerna Lena Mattsson och Ola Åstrand och producerad av Borås Konstmuseum.

Lena Mattsson och Ola Åstrand gör också en utställning om svensk 90-talskonst för Borås Konstmuseum. Utställningen som bär titeln Generation skulle ha öppnat den 5 juni men är på grund av covid-19 framflyttad till i hösten 2020.

Mer information om denna kommer separat framöver.

Premiärrelease!

7 maj 2020

Först ut är curatorerna själva, Lena Mattson och Ola Åstrand, som reflekterar över vad som händer med kulturen under Covid-19.

De är båda konstnärer och har känt varandra i många år och samarbetet i flera projekt och debuterade som konstnärer på 90-talet.

Med premiär den 7 maj kommer därefter nya filmer måndagar, onsdagar och fredagar mellan 11/5-3/6 2020

Medverkande kulturarbetare:

Maya Eizin Öijer, konstnär

Stina Fors, koreograf, performance artist och trumslagare

Max Gustafsson satirtecknare

Jean Louis Huhta, kompositör, musiker och DJ

Johan Jönsson, författare

Tova Mozard och Isak Sundström, konstnär respektive konstnär och musiker

Potato Potato, normkritisk och samhällsaktuell teater, performance och scenkonst

Torkel Rasmusson textförfattare och musiker

Dana Sederowsky, konstnär

John Skoog, konstnär

Elena Wolay, musikjournalist, DJ, klubb- och festivalarrangör

Länk till Borås Konstmuseums hemsida med mer info:

https://boraskonstmuseum.se/offentlig-konst/undersida-offentlig-konst/kultur-under-covid-19.html?fbclid=IwAR1VhRO_enrikE-2e8DLKEYRnAk0qeI8ZJcmY3f7Uq2RJRRJRP-aRzPYEJo

Lena Mattsson, Kerber Verlag

The Window opens to the World

Lena Mattsson (*1966) is a distinguished Swedish artist. Her practice includes photography, performance and social critique, as well as film and video art. Her new book encompasses her whole career, yet at the same time, it highlights her most recent works and future perspectives: especially Mattsson’s works on legendary Swedish publisher Bo Cavefors or her latest experiments with light and projections. The selection of photographs, film stills, and documentary material forms the basis for the profound discussion of her work by Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Peter Nilsson, and Charlotte Wiberg.
https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/1845/lena-mattsson

THE WOMAN IN THE STONE

“Perception of time and space”. This is the title of Lena Mattsson’s three moving image projections which were exhibited during the Light Art Festival on the Island of Light, Smögen, in September 2019. All represented one and the same woman (Amanda Cataldi), in two cases her face only, but in one case a complete figure, dressed in a bright red dress toning in with the pale red stone of the cliff walls onto which the image was projected. She looks at us, the spectators. She moves slowly in a wavelike motion down to the water, appears to pick something up then seems to drop it back into the water. In typical Mattsson style there is a concrete background to the movement, at the same time as it is abstracted so the spectator is not bound to a single interpretation. The place where the woman appears to be standing is a place where the locals fish for crabs: they fish for them and then release them into the water again.

Perhaps Mattsson, who grew up in the neighbourhood, has childhood memories of crab fishing in this location. That there is a personal connection to the place is even clearer in the first of the three female forms, where she appears only as a face – a face that looks wide-eyed back at the spectators, with cracks crisscrossing, which derive from both the concrete cliff face and the projected film images. The work is accompanied by a dreamy musical strain by the composer Conny C-A Malmqvist; the sound of stone being cut occasionally breaks through, and in the image the shape of a man, a stone cutter, emerges. Most certainly there are stone cutters in the Mattsson family too – but it has also been long-established as primary employment in the area in general. Again there is a connection to the location itself as well as a personal one.

The illuminated woman’s face seems to emerge from the stone, to be it, but is something larger than the present and the recent history. The stone is millions of years old. The woman looks at us wondering, searching, at one point tears run down the cheeks and she wipes them away – or is it just the water we see dripping towards the lower part of the image? A crab appears from above moving diagonally over the face. The woman wears red lipstick, she is strikingly beautiful. In the complete figure with the red dress she is like life itself. She cups her hands in the water and appears to offer us something as she rises up. Standing she has a crack across her face. The cracks in her make her more fragile yet. Life is delicate. But it goes on. The woman’s challenging gaze makes us reflect upon our own life, a fart in the universe as they say, but we still have the ability to act, and break the stone.

We are at the mercy of the woman and her power. It was in a way very appropriate that it rained and stormed over Smögen during the festival. In the dark and with the winds it was almost dangerous to walk out onto the jetty to look at the third figure, once again an image of the woman’s face, projected on a rock out in the water – until the storm claimed the projector which disappeared into the waves. The strength in the face which glows white against the stone, and looks seriously at the visitors with the waves whipping around them, is not to be missed. One can compare it to a siren, a dangerous figure that lures seafarers often causing them to founder.

The fact that it is a woman that is chosen to model for the project, and who gives life to the stone at the same time as the stone gives life to her, can be understood on different levels, and of course is mainly based on Mattsson’s own gender. Her own past too is in the cliffs. But it is also inevitably a statement that it is the woman who symbolises nature and life. That nature is described as a woman – “mother earth” – who is exploited in a patriarchal society, is not unusual. But this woman stares back. “Who are you?” she seems to say. She offers resistance. So the meeting with her also becomes a meeting with myself. What am I doing with my life?

It should be said however that the meeting with Lena Mattsson’s three female figures is also an aesthetic experience in its own right. The enlarged face in the first setting shimmered with different facets of colour against the stone. As water is a recurring and bearing element in Lena Mattsson’s art, the rain during the exhibition in Smögen was most appropriate – the wet stone shimmering like silver. Naturally the figures can also be viewed without the rain and wind. But the conditions surrounding the display play a part in this location-specific work of art. Like a wave, it moves uninterrupted from here and now to a much larger space, and to a time that extends far beyond the beginning of our lives, and back again. You could perhaps call it “Larger than life”.

Charlotte Wiberg

Film and art critic

Photo: 1-4 Siri Linde
Photo: 5 Malin Nilsson

Installation view “Perception of time and space” by Lena Mattsson
Music: Conny C-A Malmqvist
Island of Light Smögen 2019, Hästen, Vallevik, Smögen
http://islandoflight.se/program/artists-2019/

https://vimeo.com/364488890
https://www.lenamattsson.net
https://www.lenamattsson.tv

LICHT german lighting magazine

Urbane Kunst im hohen Norden

Lichtfestivals beleben skandinavische Städte

https://www.lenamattsson.tv/so/04MyiN0Ng

Film documentation of Perception of time and space at Island of Light Smögen 2019

Lena Mattsson
Perception of time and space
Monumental audiovisual projection in 3 parts by Lena Mattsson
at Island of Light, Smögen 12-15 September 2019
Music: Conny C-A Malmqvist

Film documentation: Stella Jaskoviak Åstrand, Lena Mattsson
Still picture: Malin Nilsson
Editing and sound: Lena Mattsson
Music: Conny C-A Malmqvist

Lena Mattsson's new films "Perception of time and space" are site-specific and edited to be projected on the islands of Hästen, Vallevik and Smögens cliffs to collaborate with the shape and historical context of the red Bohuslän granite cliffs. The films reveal the common identity that we share in the experience and memory of the landscapes we come from, which in this particular case is also her own origin.

Lena Mattsson is an artist, being born and having grown up in Kungsham, “Gravarne”, at Tången in Springet. She partially has her origin in the famous stone cutter family Lundgren, who has created many well-known stone sculptures for many established artists. Her grandfather Helge was one of the Lundgren siblings, who early on began cutting stone as to provide for the family. Helge, who was a stone cutter until his too early death, is part of one of the movies. Being a stone cutter was hard life, if one wants to know more about the Lundgren family one can read one of the books from the author Arne Lundgren, for example ”Sprickorna i fars händer”.

The music to ”Perception of time and space” by Lena Mattsson is composed by the musician Conny C-A Malmqvist.

https://www.lenamattsson.net
https://www.lenamattsson.tv
http://islandoflight.se/program/artists-2019/

https://www.lenamattsson.tv/so/04MyiN0Ng#/main

Perception of time and space

Lena Mattsson – SWE Perception of time and space – Monumental audiovisual projection in 3 parts Music: Conny C-A Malmqvist

While highlighting the natural and cultural landscape, and the importance of the environmental aspect for its survival, the films problematize a romantic nature experience through various distortions, interpretations and questioning of the original site. Instead, we are allowed to enter as visitors into a magical world, a place poetry that can only be understood in an interweaving of history and present where we acknowledge humility for nature and for each other.

ISLAND of LIGHT, SMÖGEN AN INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ART FESTIVAL 12-15 SEPTEMBER 2019 SMÖGEN - BOHUSLÄN - SWEDEN 20.00 - 24.00 EVERY NIGHT

Installation view, Vallevik, Hästen, Smögen Photo: Malin Nilsson

LICHT german lighting magazine

Urbane Kunst im hohen Norden

Lichtfestivals beleben skandinavische Städte
https://www.lenamattsson.tv/so/04MyiN0Ng#/main

Island of Light, Smögen by Lena Mattsson

Installation views, Vallevik, Hästen, Smögen. Photos: Charlotte Wiberg & Siri Linde

Film trailer: Perception of time and space by Lena Mattsson, Music Conny C-A Malmqvist

The music to ”Perception of time and space” by Lena Mattsson is composed by the musician Conny C-A Malmqvist.

Lena Mattsson – SWE

Perception of time and space – Monumental audiovisual projection in 3 parts

Music: Conny C-A Malmqvist

ISLAND of LIGHT, SMÖGEN

AN INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ART FESTIVAL

12-15 SEPTEMBER 2019

SMÖGEN - BOHUSLÄN - SWEDEN

20.00 - 24.00 EVERY NIGHT

http://islandoflight.se/program/

http://islandoflight.se
http://islandoflight.se/program/artists-2019/

Perception of time and space

Lena Mattsson's new films "Perception of time and space" are site-specific and edited to be projected on the islands of Hästen, Vallevik and Smögens cliffs to collaborate with the shape and historical context of the red Bohuslän granite cliffs. The films reveal the common identity that we share in the experience and memory of the landscapes we come from, which in this particular case is also her own origin.

While highlighting the natural and cultural landscape, and the importance of the environmental aspect for its survival, the films problematize a romantic nature experience through various distortions, interpretations and questioning of the original site. Instead, we are allowed to enter as visitors into a magical world, a place poetry that can only be understood in an interweaving of history and present where we acknowledge humility for nature and for each other.

Lena Mattsson is an artist, being born and having grown up in Kungsham, “Gravarne”, at Tången in Springet. She partially has her origin in the famous stone cutter family Lundgren, who has created many well-known stone sculptures for many established artists. Her grandfather Helge was one of the Lundgren siblings, who early on began cutting stone as to provide for the family. Helge, who was a stone cutter until his too early death, is part of one of the movies. Being a stone cutter was hard life, if one wants to know more about the Lundgren family one can read one of the books from the author Arne Lundgren, for example ”Sprickorna i fars händer”. 

The music to ”Perception of time and space” by Lena Mattsson is composed by the musician Conny C-A Malmqvist. 

Lena Mattsson – SWE 

Perception of time and space – Monumental audiovisual projection in 3 parts 

Music: Conny C-A Malmqvist

ISLAND of LIGHT, SMÖGEN

AN INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ART FESTIVAL 

12-15 SEPTEMBER 2019

SMÖGEN - BOHUSLÄN - SWEDEN

20.00 - 24.00 EVERY NIGHT

http://islandoflight.se/program/

http://islandoflight.se