PROJECTS
Annatopia -book release
Annatopia. Book release at Nyströms Gastronomi in Malmö.
Malmö Open Studios -Studio Annatopia
Malmö Open Studios - May 5. 2018
Föreställningar/Events
FÖRESTÄLLNINGAR (The word FÖRESTÄLLNINGAR in Swedish means: PERFORMANCES, EVENTS, representations, presentations, notions, imaginations, visualization, ideas, conceptions) a collaboration between GERTRUD ALFREDSSON and ANNA BRAG. With drawing as the point of departure, we create spatial stories about various everyday phenomena. Foucault's concept of "eventualization" means that everyday reality is made visible by raising it to an "event" or a "performance". Using the flexibility and simplicity of drawing, we create SPACE.
MASQUERADE MIRAGE SUN CAT
MASKERAD, HÄGRING, SOLKATT is a public work at Pär Lagerqvist school in Växjö- that consists of three mosaics placed in the three gates when you are heading into the preschool building. The motives är inspired by Pär Lagerqvist's poetry and pre-school theme, the four elements: Earth, water/air and fire. The titles are closely tied to the pictures, but telling us that what we see is not always what we think we see. There may also be something else somewhere else. I wanted to make a gesture, which is visual, beautiful and playful. The images should be readable for both children and adults and stimulate the imagination to create own stories.-
- Since you get very close to the motives, I have emphasized the details. They are tabulates, inspired by the Roman mosaics, who also have strong narrative elements.
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- In the first image MASQUERAD, we stand with both feet on earth. We see a cross section through the ground. What otherwise falls underneath us becomes visible. Feet and roots, worms and gray bugs.
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- In the second picture MIRAGE.
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- Water and air are joined by the hero, which stands with the feet in the water and with the head in the blue.
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- A mirage (Hägring) is an optical phenomenon, caused by bent light rays.
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- The hero (Hägern), is a common sight at Bergundasjön, the lake just by the school.
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- The sun is spreading when it is dazzled by the mirror. It makes a Sun Cat.
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- Through the three pictures we are moving out towards the solar system.
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- In the third picture, Sun Cat, we no longer see the horizon.
INCOGNITO
INCOGNITO is an attempt to draw a portrait of A, an invisible person. By encircling her physical context.-
- Incognito _a portrait of A
C/O
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FINDUS
Findus in 92 759 bits. Public work at Pålsjöhemmet, Helsingborg, 2012. Material: Glass Mosaic (Bisazza) Findus in 92759 pieces is a triptych placed at the entrance of the Pålsjöhemmet, short term residence, in Helsingborg. The three pictures, found in the pond, on the façade and on the inner wall in the entrance, represents the goldfish Findus in its aquarium. By using the same motive, Findus in his aquarium, I have been able to create and reproduce the same subject from different perspectives. In close proximity, the motives may appear abstract, but the farther away you come, the better you see.
INSIGHTS
INSIGHTS, 2016 (INSIKTER) Public work at the preschool Diamanten in Tollarp, Kristianstad The central part of the work, is places on the wall of the children's kitchen. The spiders gather at the dinner table. The dinner has been caught in the net and each spider have a plate in front of them, waiting for the food to be served. The whole alphabet is stuck in the net and the spider child can choose what they are want to have their plate today. Maybe something on the letter B? The work consists of two additional parts; the three ants that collect lost things, and two fat blue caterpillars. They would like to crawl inside but maybe they are a bit too thick to come through the hole?
MUSTANG
Mustang, Jaguar, Lotus, Beetles, , Public art work in the parking house "Paradisgaraget" Örnsköldsvik, 2009. In this garage there are not only cars but also Lotus and Beetles, a Jaguar, one Mustang, Two Impalas and a flying Thunderbird. The pictures are easy to read and they help to locate in the building. The images are connected with different car brands. Each floor has its own color and a theme; earth, grass, sun, sky, linked to the color codes brown. The images can be read as a circuit, where old symbols, like The Lotus and the Beetles, follow us in our cars throughout the entire building. Whoever wants to go deeper into the meaning of the work can reflect on the motive's symbolic content and their meanings.
At Susanne´s
At Susanne Public work at the Endocrinological department, Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm The work consists of drawings that take us home to Susanne. Her furnished room breaks up the walls and the central perspective of the long corridors. The drawings create a contrast between the public hospital environment and the private spaces. The patients who come to this department are often recurring for a long time and may experience the place as a "second home". The drawings from Susanne's home give the hospitals' waiting rooms and corridors a "home feeling" which gives an extra layer over the institution's walls. The drawings are detailed and you can look, search and find new things over time.
