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TRANSCENDENCE (OF CAPITALISM OR BACK TO GEOLOGY) BY Hanna Ljungh
The film camera rushes on in a speed of 200 images per second. It´s a pace necessary to be able to capture the rapid movement down into the mine. During the four minutes long elevator ride, we pass by mountains created during millions of years. In the film installation Transcendence (of Capitalism or Back to Geology) the artist uses camera technique in order to construct a break or a change of pace in the 24/7 production a big scale mining industry constitutes.
Hanna Ljungh sees the fictive decel-eration as an act of resistance or maybe one of transcendence. A transcendence in which the mountain passing the camera eye, evolves from being a resource to be-ing an existence in its own right. A body of mountain consisting of millions of years of solidifying, wrinkling, slowly floating, panting, crystallizing, becoming.
Hanna Ljungh (b 1974) has for a good period of time dedicated her art practice to the matter we describe as land, soil, stone and mountain. Her work reflects upon and questions the fine line between what we call human and non-human forms of existence and the complex relations between them. Ljungh’s works are often fact-based in their core but move away from the factual in their aesthetics to rather relate to the viewers bodily sensations and feelings. In earlier works such as the large scale photographic and sculptural series Vivisections and Specimens Ljungh playfully stages modern day geological excavations. In her film and sound piece, ‘I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence’, Ljungh portrayed Sweden’s highest mountain Kebnekaise in an almost 6 hour long film and sound installation.
Hanna Ljungh lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Ljungh received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York and an MFA from the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. In the spring of 2015, Hanna Ljungh was, along with Henrik Håkansson and Åsa Sonjadotter, part of the group show D’ après nature at the Swedish Institute in Paris. Previously, Ljungh’s works have been shown at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Studio Hippolyte in Helsinki, HIAP in Helsinki, Kumho Museum of Art in Soeul, South Korea among others.
