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In Sjölin’s first Sportscast, Sweden meets Switzerland during the World Cup in football 2018. As a dual citizen, Sjölin felt entitled to provide the game with an alternative commentary track, but the lack of interest in the sport allows Sjölin to go off track with anecdotes from her childhood, which alternates between humor and seriousness.
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The work of Swedish-Swiss artist Sara Sjölin is centered on the affective dimensions of comedy as it emerges in aestheticized forms of tragedy, mundane observation and spontaneous imagination. Enacted in film, speech, performance and installation, Sjölin’s work fictionalizes partial truths, creatively resituates them and brings them into view through processes of tentative sense making, gradually revealing the multifaceted and dynamically shifting nature of meta-narrative and poetic worlds. Sara Sjölin has presented her work at Uniondocs (US), Lagune Ouest (DK), Kunsthaus Zürich (CH), Konstnärshuset (SE), CPH:DOX (DK), Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), Galleri Susanne Ottesen (DK), Krukan Sportsbar (SE), Østerbro Stadion (DK), Kunsthal Aarhus (DK) and SALTS (CH). She has been an Artist in Residence at the Danish Institute in Rome and at ISCP in New York. Sjölin holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.