Lina Selander’s films and installations can read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are tested. She examines relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, language and image.

The precise, rhythmic editing and use of sound in her films create their own temporality and strong inner pressure. Her works often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new emerges.

Characteristic of Selander’s work is the use of film to build dense layers of images and meaning, through which contemporary society is connected with history.

Published on the occasion of Lina Selander representing Sweden with a solo exhibition at the Arsenale, Venice Biennale, 9 May – 22 November 2015.

English and Swedish text.