Presentation
Sweden - Born in 1975
The Source of Dreams
Intriguing? Terrifying? Charming? Poetic? Melancholic? Pensive? Disturbing? Faced with the works of Helena Blomqvist, we find ourselves grappling with a tumult of contradictory feelings. To produce her burlesque, delirious compositions, the Swedish photographer first creates images on paper in her small studio in Södermalm, Stockholm. “I always sketch out my ideas before I start,” she says. “Then I build my sets and models. I sew clothes, rent accessories, contact models, etc.” She confirms that she spends more time preparing her image and then digitally editing it than she does behind her camera. Some of these scenes require several months of work before the shutter button is pressed.
Free from convention, her detailed creations attract the eye of both contemporary art lovers and the general public alike, who inevitably see in them the dreamlike relics of folk universes and popular legends. Like a patchwork of dreams, nightmares, pages ripped from dusty story books, old paintings inhabited with strange creatures, or the reel of some fantasy film.
Because, beyond her flair for composition and ability to imagine scenes animated by a universal language, Blomqvist also invests her images with a certain cinematic power. A journey to the source of your dreams.
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© Helena Blomqvist
Exhibition
Intriguing? Terrifying? Charming? Poetic? Melancholic? Pensive? Disturbing? Faced with the works of Helena Blomqvist, we find ourselves grappling with a tumult of contradictory feelings. To produce her burlesque, delirious compositions, the Swedish photographer first creates images on paper in her small studio in Södermalm, Stockholm. “I always sketch out my ideas before I start,” she says. “Then I build my sets and models. I sew clothes, rent accessories, contact models, etc.” She confirms that she spends more time preparing her image and then digitally editing it than she does behind her camera. Some of these scenes require several months of work before the shutter button is pressed.
Free from convention, her detailed creations attract the eye of both contemporary art lovers and the general public alike, who inevitably see in them the dreamlike relics of folk universes and popular legends. Like a patchwork of dreams, nightmares, pages ripped from dusty story books, old paintings inhabited with strange creatures, or the reel of some fantasy film.
Because, beyond her flair for composition and ability to imagine scenes animated by a universal language, Blomqvist also invests her images with a certain cinematic power. A journey to the source of your dreams.
RUE LA FAYETTE