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by Anja Örn
Artist
Anja Örn
(Sverige, född 1972)
Alternate Title
- In Memory of a River
Date2018-2020
MediumDigital video, color, stereo sound; aluminium
DimensionsVarierande mått
Digital video: 12:41 min
ClassificationSculptures, Installations, Moving Images
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2021/237
CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkWho remembers the waterfall that stopped, the rapids that grew silent? When the exploitation of the rivers in Norrbotten began on an industrial scale in the early 1900s, their natural movements were manipulated with embankments and concrete dams. Around the same period, artists from the south travelled to Sápmi to paint rapids and waterfalls. In an essay film and billowing sculptures of imaginary torrents, Anja Örn reflects on the price of the wealth generated by water in motion. She turns to nature scenes in art history to find documentation of the lost waters that were used to build the nation, and which have also become an archive of memories. Who portrayed the river, whose gaze has shaped our collective memory?
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