Hanna Abrahamsson
You’re finally home

Opening night at Stefan Stambolovo 36th Street 19:00

Through photography, video, and text I explore the subconscious in human behavior. I work with symbols to understand humans as part of a larger societal structure and how it involuntarily affects our feelings and actions. Place, memory, and the transience of life are another recurring themes in my practice. With a starting point from the pre-existing, I collect images and stories to find connections between them, to highlight what often can be overlooked. In many of my works I move between the personal and the universal, between past and present, in a hybrid of the staged and the documentary.

The exhibitions consists of two video works (“You’re finally home” and” Astor’s playing”) They both explore our relationships to places – both imaginary and tangible and ask questions about security, control and the connection to evanescence. The two works are based on a mixture of memory and fantasy and illustrate the sense of alienation and a feeling of being disconnect to “real life”. - Hanna Abrahamsson

Hanna Abrahamsson (1989, SE) is an artist, educated at HDK-Valand Academy of Art, Biskops Arnö documentary film school and Stockholm University. Recent exhibition and screenings have been staged in But so it goes, CLOSING SOON (Athens, GR)Dental Chambers, Okay Initiative Space gallery (Athens, GR) How far from here, Sauna (Warsaw, PL) Walking Fumes, Escape nonono (Paris, FR) Open Studios, CoGalleries / part of Berlin Gallery Weekend (Berlin, DE) In and Out, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Gdansk, PL) Indhegning, Sydhavn Teater (Copenhagen, DK).

The exhibition and residency are supported by the Swedish Arts Committee and Helge ax:son Johnsson. Many thanks to Tequila Bar Fnky Mnky for serving free drinks.