Sinzo Aanza nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize.
On Earth features five artists who use moving images to explore the complex relationships between humans and the natural environment. The film and video works in this exhibition present land as a central figure, introducing themes of temporality, ritual, memory, territory, loss, and birth. Offering critical readings on the often destructive relationship between humankind and the earth, the artists also advance visions for alternative futures. The artworks directly engage with challenging realities, while acknowledging the joy, creativity, and growth that a relationship with land can provide.
James Webb’s work is characterized by a poetic sensibility, an exploration of multiple histories, mythologies, places and contexts. Now Liljevalchs welcomes James Webb’s first major solo exhibition in his new hometown of Stockholm – The Moon Will Not Stay Hidden Forever.
With The Moon Will Not Stay Hidden Forever, Webb takes on Sweden, Stockholm and Liljevalchs with his site-specific interventions and installations. Some of the artworks that visitors will encounter are a Viking sword transformed by a series of personal questions, an ensemble singing an 873-year-old hymn inside R1’s nuclear reactor hall, flags made from a vision of a saint, and the song of an alien bird in the Blue Gate garden.
Out in the garden between Liljevalchs and the Blue Gate, you can hear the song of a brown southern shark, native to Tasmania. Webb’s family was sent to Tasmania as convicts in the early 1900s. It is likely that the artist’s ancestors heard the bird’s song, and by placing the song in Liljevalch’s garden in Webb’s new hometown of Stockholm, a circle of movement through time and space is completed.
Création graphique d’après l’œuvre de Younes Rahmoun par le studio Constance+Ismaël