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Klara Källström

Blackdrop Island

Klara Källström | Blackdrop Island

Blackdrop Island is a video piece that depicts fragments of city nightlife in Tokyo. We encounter sequences where an intense flashlight illuminates seemingly random people and objects such as a crowd, a beetle upon a house facade, a stack of plates, and wrapped trees.

a meeting between photography, poetry, and music

The darkness hangs like a curtain (https://fotografiska.woo.flewid.se/exhibition/blackdrop-island/) behind the objects thereby accentuating the details of these everyday scenes, which might otherwise go unnoticed. The photographs are accompanied by Viktor Johansson’s poems, music by Jonas Nordborg and Anton Kolbe and sound by Martin Johnson. Blackdrop Island constitutes a meeting between photography, poetry, and music. These elements interact to produce an innovative video work.

Klara Källström (b. 1984) graduated in 2009 from the School of Photography in Gothenburg. She has participated in numerous exhibitions at the Swedish Institute in Paris, the Hasselblad Center, and Röda Sten in Gothenburg among others. In 2008, she created the permanent artwork for Stockholm subway station Danderyds Sjukhus. Källström has published three books, Blackdrop Island (2011), Wikiland (2011) and Gingerbread Monument (2008). Källström is one of the founders of B-B-B-Books, and she collaborates with photographer Thobias Fäldt under the name KK+TF.

3 x VIDEO

Fotografiska is proud to present 3 x VIDEO, a series of exhibitions, each dedicated to an up-and-coming Swedish video artist. Klara Källström (Sept. 2 – Oct. 9), Joanna Rytel (Oct. 10 – Nov. 13), Johan Wik (Nov. 14 – Dec. 11)