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Åsa Elzén

In this video photographs of former ‘pearl princesses’ are slowly being filmed. The pearl princesses are kind of beauty queens chosen by an association of pearl factories to promote pearls.

Aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3)
Prod. format Generic SD-video
Duration 00:08:00
Language No dialogue
Color Color
Year 2002
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About the artist

Åsa Elzén

Born in 1972 in Visby, Sweden. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Åsa Elzén has studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, BA 1996, and at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, MA 2002. She has been an artist-in-residence at Changdong Art Studios, Seoul, Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem, IASPIS, Stockholm and Sanskriti Kendra, New Dehli, among others. She works with video, sculpture, photography and installation and has shown work at Exit Art, New York, Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, ak28, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Rooseum, Malmö, and Gwangju Biennale 2004.

She is interested in subjects such as feminism, globalism, tourism, notions of beauty and love.

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