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Paris: Tuija Lindstrom at the Swedish Institute

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L’Institut Suédois in Paris is presenting Un rêve s’il en fut jamais, an exhibition devoted to Swedish photographer Tuija Lindström (b. 1950 in Finland). It gathers photographs taken between 1980 and 1987 and runs through January 18th, 2015.

These original prints were made by the artist herself. The layout of the exhibition is simple and classic, like a return to form, and the pictures are displayed thematically, with some that seem almost subliminal. Soft Scandinavian landscapes alternate with raw shots of bodies. Women, their skin imprinted with the markings of overly tight clothing, are the incarnation of nonconformity in a normalized society.

By photographing classical themes, Lindström, the first woman to be named Professor at the University of Gothenburg (until 2002), defies visual codes, between dreams and reality, represented head-on and unadorned. She reveals to us her world through these portraits—sometimes staged, sometimes spontaneous—landscapes, nudes, strange and mysterious animals. The subjects have been taken from her imagination, but these dreamlike landscapes are all real. The portraits are raw. Here appearances aren’t deceiving. She freezes her family, daughters and friends in time. Her immediate surroundings emanate from these black-and-white pictures in soft, voluptuous grey tones inspired by the pictorialists.

EXHIBITION
Un rêve s’il en fut jamais
Tuija Lindström

Through January 18th 2015
Institut Suédois
11, rue Payenne
75003 Paris
France

https://paris.si.se

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