Anja Linnea Hellström

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The images entitled Cystoidea are psychographic microphotographs. Through them I am making an attempt to overview some experiences, to abstract in order to reach another point of view. I watch how lines of thought are deepened, ideas getting firmer or beginning to grow beyond control. Note linguistic relations of energy, see how something that was planted has grown into an arbitrary form. I study constellations of sensation, making tableaus of imperfect rules.

Within these photographs I approach how reckless mass movements are nourished in a narrow corner of ourselves. I cherish the language that should reconcile us with one another, I reflect upon a time in which language is exhausted and words at times are in ruin. I navigate amongst sore talk, emptied frases, amongst wrecks of intensions and neglected acts.

The mirror technique I use has historically been used in vortographs created in the 1910s. With my intentional misreading – Wort-o-graph – I shift accent onto the linguistic bond between ourselves alone, the graph and the wider world. Indirectly I suggest that stagnation as well as crisis and advancement is contingent upon language. It provides a ray of light. The celebration of the machine age by the vortocists has here been replaced by skepticism and the emphasis is put on inner human powerhouses in a digital time.

I understand my works as gestures. Photographs may be part of my assembled collages but the common denominator is always language.