Ögon på besök/Visiting Eyes was an exhibition at AvenyGallerian in Gothenburg Sweden about the cultural exchange between Mexico and Sweden, taking place every year through the arts residency period in both countries. Ögon på besök/Visiting Eyes was part of the event Mexico in Region Västragötaland, a cultural week in the area during October-November 2011 and […]
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Following on from Ex Uno, Plures and inspired by her residency in Mexico during 2011, You Cannot Step into The Same River Twice uses as its source ideas related to the prints and watercolours made by the English artist Frederick Catherwood and the American writer John Lloyd Stephens book entitled: Incidents of Travel in Central […]
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These images were produced and exhibited in Mexico during the En Transito exhibition at Centro Cultural Manuel Gomez Morin, Queretaro, Mexico during spring 2012. Please see following link for further details about the event: http://en-transito.com/
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Whilst working in Russia in 2008-09, Filipsson became concerned with how humankind’s dependence on the bi-products of petroleum transforms and conditions our natural and social environment. At this point Filipsson made a study in watercolour showing evidence of petrol pollution seeping into Moscow’s Yauza River from a congested motorway that cuts through the city centre. […]
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In her collection of work The Atheists exhibited at the opening of Bergsjöns Kulturenhet, 2006 Filipsson narrates a visual semi-autobiographical story about an adolescent boy and a girl who are not allowed to be together because of their cultural difference that antagonise the young man’s parents. The teenage couple move through a bleak suburban landscape, […]
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All of the screenprints above were exhibited in the En tránsito show at Centro Educativo y Cultural Manuel Gomez Morin, 2012. En tránsito is a group exhibition consisting of three European artists. Emma Filipsson from Sweden, David Kendall and Ben Elwes from United Kingdom. The show explores how visual, historical and transnational processes and locations […]
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