MMP: Miriam Bäckström
25.3 1999 – 24.5 1999
Stockholm
Her photographs are direct, sometimes painfully sharp, pictures of for example the estate of a deceased person, film sets and museum milieus. They belong to a documentary tradition but Miriam Bäckström seeks for situations that are more or less arranged, for instance, when someone has recently died and their property is being sorted and packed; a film shoot requires a café environment created like a typical café; a museum wishes to preserve something, which from the beginning was scenery or a kind of stage set. The image are uncompromisingly direct but complex in their multiple layers of fact and fiction. They are about as close to reality as it is possible to come without being real. In Prästgården Miriam Bäckström will show a new series of cibachrome photographs.
Curator: Maria Lind
Moderna Museet Project
Moderna Museet Project is an activity of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Artists are commissioned to make new work for the temporary project space in the Old Vicarage next to the museum on Skeppsholmen, for other situations and environments in the city of Stockholm or elsewhere.