Schaper Sundberg Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, August through October 1999. The exhibition was comprised of a series of 8 panorama format colour photographs (C-type). The size chosen, 90 cm.x 250 cm. is the minimum necessary to see all the details of the subjects. They are made in Lambda process.


The photo series originates from my fictitious idea of an international egg and spermbank accessible to everyone. The first photograph, entitled; The International egg and spermbank is of a city and the air space immidiately above it. The air is also an image of an unlimited space, which stems from the fact that many egg and sperm donators and recievers make contact in cyberspace; the collective fertilization space.

Cyberspace does not exist as a space, it could however exists as soon as one acts.


Photographs:


The international egg and spermbank
(Lambda process, C-type print 3mX1m.)

Corner
(Lambda process, C-type print 3mX1m.)

 The house to the left is the only library there is for womens literature in London. The couple has a relationship. There is always power in relationships. The structure of our society is built by relationships. The corner is the part that is bearing.

I can see you but you can´t see me
(Lambda process, C-type print 3mX1m.)

It's either the woman in the image speaking or the viewer.
Women are often subject for critical view regarding looks and sex, and either she becomes a victim and act as such, or she answers back and challenge that gaze..

The weathergirl
(Lambda process, C-type print 3mX1m.)

This is taken in the back yard of a building where a musician lives.
He records sounds from the atmosphere via these antennas. The woman has braces. She is a witch of today, telling stories and connecting via her braces to her rings to the antennas. Her sayings weaves into the radiowaves.

The Blue Angel Bar
(Lambda process, C-type print 3mX1m.)

The woman is balancing and trying to find her axis and relax, the man under her is contemplating his childhood. This act affects the whole shivering moving creative structure of the society. The society is made of relationships. In this way every private and intimate as well as public act by every person is political.

I love myself and I understand you think I´m difficult
(C-type print 3mX1m)

The fool
(Lambda process, C-type print 3mX1m)

”The fool” is about an inevitable ideal-state-of-mind. To be foolish is a kind of openess. The swan is calmly lying in the trash in her own beauty. It’s stupid to build a nest at such a place, but on the other hand: what can you do?

God is love
(C-type print 110 x 70cm)
The photo was placed at the far end of the gallery. The title is taken from the tattoo on her arm.

Scarring is a documentation of a scarring, with an explanatory text mounted beside on the wall.
You have a conception about something, an ideology, you are part of a political discussion etc. An experience can cut the belief behind one’s conception. This is how I work.






For more information and documentation of photographic works, contact the artist:
ceciliaparsberg@this.is / tel: +46 (0)8 328677, +46 (0)70 3286819