The Un dead is set in a haunted house where people and furniture have come to resemble each other. In a sequence of events that is at once surrealistically driven and materially presenting, we get to see what takes place between these four walls. A woman chews on a bird, a belt floats in the room, a man stares out of an opaque window opening. It’s a desolate interior where amateur actors perform protracted acts on repeat. The video was recorded on VHS with a camera from 1985. These technical limitations create a time-bound filter, a low resolution with painterly effect. The sound is close, clear and sharp, achieving a warping effect between image, sound and object. In the cracks between the familiar and the strange, between normality and absurdity, there is a growing gnawing discomfort.
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The Un Dead
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Rasmus Ramö Streith
About the artist
Rasmus Ramö Streith’s film and object-based installations revolve around storytelling, dreamlike states and everyday objects. His work features scenes haunted by both recognition and ambiguity, which in turn reinforce a sense of unease and disorientation.
Rasmus Ramö Streith (born 1985 in Falköping, Sweden, lives in Malmö) studied at Malmö Art Academy (2013-18) and has exhibited at Kohta Konsthall, Helsinki (2024), Malmö Konsthall (2022), Kolonin, Arvika (2022) and Galleri Arnstedt in Östra Karup (2019). His work (The Un dead) is in the Moderna Museet collection in Stockholm.