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Mira Dayal on Fia Backström

Artforum International, 2018, Vol.56 (10)

Copyright Artforum Inc. Summer 2018 ;ISSN: 1086-7058

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  • Title:
    Mira Dayal on Fia Backström
  • Author: Dayal, Mira
  • Subjects: 21st century ; Abstract art ; Art exhibits ; Backstrom, Fia ; Contemporary art ; Earth ; Engraving ; Fiber arts ; Installation art ; Photography ; Prints and printmaking ; Women
  • Is Part Of: Artforum International, 2018, Vol.56 (10)
  • Description: At once forensic, intimate, political, and alien, Backström’s pictures—some of which she took with her own camera, or using a microscope, and some of which she found on the internet—juxtapose subjects ranging from “unknown content, extracted from gap between teeth” and “secreted nasal mucus” to “Nordic Resistance Movement march, Gothenburg, Sweden” and “toxic mining waste.” In a performance accompanying the exhibition, a dancer interpreted the spaceship’s motions of distress and orbital movement, while Backström narrated what was for her a key element of Martinson’s story: how the spaceship beams images from earth back to the people on board to comfort them, as if the sight of home could restore their faith in the promise of eventual return. Yet the printing transformed these difficult scenes into beautifully colored abstractions, so that the flames of smoldering homes echoed the forms in an adjacent image of a Staten Island marsh, and the helmets of Nordic Resistance marchers rhymed with the ruins visible in Fossil; Record (6th Century St. Elijah’s Monastery, destroyed by IS) January 20, 2016.
  • Publisher: New York: Artforum Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1086-7058
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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