The Lack of Sequence

Anna Linderstam works with photography, video, performance and installation. In complex visualizations of psychological states and conflicts, she is investigating that which can be articulated and that which cannot.

’The Lack of Sequence’ is a quiet drama, presented in a consciously cinematographic way. Everything in the photograph is a result of the artist’s complete control. Linderstam has constructed the whole scenery, from the choice of a vast and roughly textured carpet where the character is crouching, to the equal gradient between the wall and the character’s clothing.

In a contract between the artist and her model, Linderstam explores the relation between time, physical exertion, submission and dominance within the performative space of photography. The model was asked to perform an exhausting pose that was held over a length of time, testing the boundaries between the controlled pose and its final moment of collapse. After several hours the model’s body appears to be fixed. She is here suspended between object and subject, alien and known.

This image belongs to the Hasselblad Foundation