Henrik Lund Jørgensen

Artist Henrik Lund Jørgensen has consistently researched different forms of cultural representation since 2008. In his works, which are often dominated by film or photography, the references to history and contemporary times are equally present.

This exhibition is Lund Jørgensen's first solo presentation at a Swedish museum. Two extensive works are shown here. Friends He Lost At Sea (2009), which fills the first room, includes film, photography, sketches and texts. The work is based on two of Skagen artist Michael Ancher's (1849-1927) most well-known paintings. Lund Jørgensen has recreated them as tableau vivants, but in his version, the men rescued from the sea are not shipwrecked sailors.

In the innermost room, a new film is shown, The Recruitment (And Escape) Of A Plastic Soldier. Here Lund Jørgensen takes his starting point in Romantic landscape painting as well as in the visual world of Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968). At the same time, the film references the often similar dramaturgy that characterizes the media's stories of people on the run. In the film, the well-known description of events and the distribution of roles are loosened up.

Title of the exhibition Sea Change is an expression derived from Shakespeare's The Storm. The term has reached a new popularity today and is used to describe decisive shifts.

Henrik Lund Jørgensen (b. 1975 in Denmark, active in Malmö and Falster) was educated at Malmö Art Academy and Valand Academy. He has received, among other things, the Robert Frank Scholarship, the Edstrandska Scholarship, the Artists' Board's Work Scholarship and the Iaspi Studio Scholarship.‍

Curator: Elna Svenle^‍

^{Photo: Johann Bergenholtz}