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Museer, samlingar och rekonstruktioner, Nordiska Museet, Staden - Himmel eller Helvete? Stockholm 1999
© Miriam Bäckström
Museer, samlingar och rekonstruktioner, Nordiska Museet, Staden - Himmel eller Helvete? Stockholm 1999
Museer, samlingar och rekonstruktioner, Nordiska Museet, Staden - Himmel eller Helvete? Stockholm 1999
Photo repro: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Museer, samlingar och rekonstruktioner, Nordiska Museet, Staden - Himmel eller Helvete? Stockholm 1999

by Miriam Bäckström
Artist (Sverige, född 1967)
Alternate Title
  • Museums, Collections and Reconstructions, The Nordic Museum, The City - Heaven or Hell?, Stockholm, 1999
Date1999
MediumFärgfotografi typ R Monterat under glas
DimensionsBildmått: 120 × 150 cm Yttermått: 120 × 150 × 2,8 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LinePurchase 1999 (SAS Collection)
Countries
Sweden
Object NumberMOM/2000/152
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe images are part of a series in which the artist photographed places that tell a story. One of the pictures is taken at IKEA's private museum where they have created period rooms. This particular room is intended to reflect the 1950s. The image with the tent was taken at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm during an exhibition about the city as living environment, showing a homeless person's "habitation". What choices are made when one wishes to describe a time or a place? Is it possible to re-create something from reality, such as, in this case, a home? And what happened to the homeless woman whose domicile became a museum object? These two images give raise to thoughts on city building, in dreams and in reality.
 Selected exhibition history Organising Freedom: nordisk 90-tals konst (2000) Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennalen i Istanbul. Miriam Bäckström (1999) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet Projekt: Miriam Bäckström (1999) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet Projekt : Miriam Bäckström : 25/3 - 24/5 1999Organising freedom : nordisk 90-talskonst : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : [12/2 - 9/4 2000]