Agencia de Tránsitos Culturales (ATC) is pleased to announce the opening of Distancias próximas, an exhibition by video artist Noemi Sjöberg at Galería ATC. The opening will take place on Friday 1st June, at 7.30pm, in Calle Callao de Lima, 39, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and will remain open to the public until 31st July. The artist, who currently lives in Barcelona, will be present during the opening ceremony. The exhibition includes three videos and a photograph.
Sjöberg has always been travelling, and not only as a tourist, but also for residential reasons. She has lived between Sweden, Spain and France. She was born in Madrid, grew up in Paris and Stockholm and now lives in Barcelona. This coming and going has made the artist feel as if she does not belong to any one place, but uprooted and in constant movement.
As an artist, she has made the journey a support for creation. Wandering and surprise are fundamental. She does not travel with an artistic plan, but allows the work to emerge in situ in the interaction of her concerns and experiences of a new environment. She is interested in the everyday, "until the ordinary becomes strange, extraordinary and unreal," says the artist.
Sjöberg observes and is affected by moments of bewilderment, uproot, confusion, insecurity and, above all, significance. This is when she takes the camera and the work begins to take shape in video format; Impressions, the transient, the volatile. The form is not closed. It opens up to the surrounding randomness. Everything looks like background even while objects stand out at times. This is when the background, distant, becomes close.
It is the state of "between two" in which the artist finds herself when she interrupts her daily life and immerses herself in the new environment. One rhythmic identification with her own everyday life and the other with the strange environment. A pulse then arises between detail and the whole. Between the visible and the invisible. Of how the vision of one supposes the total or partial invisibility of the other.
Distancias próximas ("Close distances") points to a series of apparent contradictions. How, from a distance, or that other place, we see forms better, and how, on the other hand, from the proximity, from the place itself, forms break down.
Noemi Sjöberg (1978) is Swedish and currently lives in Barcelona. From 1997 to 2002 she studied at École Supérieure des Beaux Arts d'Aix en Provence (France). Her main working media are video, installation and photography. He has had exhibitions in various museums, galleries and video festivals in countries such as Spain, France, Sweden, Morocco, Mexico, Germany, Holland, Italy, China, China, Bulgaria, Russia, Cuba, Ecuador and Argentina. He has carried out residencies at Ca l'Estruch, in Sabadell; at Rice+, in Tokyo; and at Metrònom, Fundació Rafael Tous d'Art Contemporani, in Barcelona.