Främmande land
Artist
Meira Ahmemulic
(Sverige, född 1974)
Alternate Title
- Foreign Land
Date2014
MediumDigital video, color, stereo sound
Dimensions6:12 min
ClassificationMoving Images
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Object NumberMOM/2021/80
CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe video camera follows a woman from afar, wandering through a grey urban landscape. This distance creates a detachment between the observer, the woman and the large housing estate. Over the images, Meira Ahmemulić’s voice gives a factual account of relatives who have travelled across borders with their dreams and hopes of finding happiness in a foreign country. Ahmemulić talks of her mother. For a year, they worked as artists side by side. They mapped their conditions: the mother mapped her worn-out body, the daughter mapped the society around them. Is there room for exhausted bodies and yearning souls in a society that lacks mobility and empathy?
Selected exhibition history Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Selected exhibition history Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm