Life´s Work
Video
- Footage: Henrik Malmström
- Edit: Henrik Malmström
- Format: Digital HD Video
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Sound: Stereo
- Length: 4:56 min
- Filmed: 2013-14
- Released: September 2014
- Additional Notes: Commissioned and curated by 1000 Words / Tim Clark
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Synopsis
Through the short film entitled Life’s Work, Henrik Malmström offers an unpredictable twist on the
distance between objectivity and subjectivity by reflecting on the mundane situations of various
Portuguese inhabitants from his local neighborhood in Hamburg, Germany.
Getting as close as possible yet aspiring to a neutral position, Malmström conjures up the vivid
presence of cleaners, sex workers, laundrette staff, religious worshippers and commuters.
With deadpan humor and an unremitting gaze, the artist seeks to open up ‘the universe next door’
whilst also engaging more broadly in the multitude of individual dreams that form one universal wish
– to find happiness in life through comfort and material security.
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Press
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Past Exhibitions
Video Art Festival Turku (G) / May 19 – 22, 2016
Rebecoming (G) / Flowers Gallery / September 10, 2014 – October 11, 2014
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This video can be downloaded and shared with others as long as the authorship is credited
and there is a link back to the website of the author. This video cannot be altered in any way
or used for commercial purposes nor be displayed or exhibited without the consent of the artist.
CC (BY-NC-ND) / Henrik Malmström
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