Lina Selander - For a Time Light Must be Called Darkness

For a Time Light Must Be Called Darkness features six video installations, most of them made in collaboration with Oscar Mangione. These works take us to Bredäng (a suburb in south-west Stockholm), Berlin, the West Bank, Pripyat and Chernobyl. All of these places are the occasion and the starting point for broader reflections about our present in relation to historical facts. Selander visits these sites and like an archaeologist digs in their past, their monuments, museums and archives. She looks for visual documents, focuses on details and analytically sketches new hypotheses. In this way, she tries to retrace hidden links between distant images, correspondences and analogies, in order to create new narratives. In her essayistic approach, Selander combines her own texts and footage along with still images, quotes and archive material. In this way a constant tension springs within these multiple-layered audiovisual works and reminds us that seeing is never an innocent act.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition For a Time Light Must Be Called Darkness held at argos from 24 September 2017 to 17 December 2017.

author: Andrea Cinel and Gustav Sjöberg
design: Inge Ketelers
publisher: argos editions (Brussels)
Year: 2017
book: 21 x 29.7 cm, 51 pages, English / German
ISBN: n/a
price: €7