Inherited Dreams

We are delighted to be able to start this season with Maria Friberg's third personal exhibition in our gallery.
Since she emerged on to the artistic scene in the 1990's, Maria Friberg (1966, Sweden) has been exploring the dynamics that govern our time, by means of her painstakingly choreographed photographs and videos. Her images bring together a carefully controlled aesthetics and a sense of the uncanny. This unusual approach has been attracting a growing attention on the international scene to an artist who is already recognised as a significant figure in contemporary art from Scandinavia.

In this new exhibition, Inherited Dreams, specifically designed for LMNO, Maria Friberg proposes an in-depth exploration of inter-generational dynamics. She questions social roles, in particular those linked to masculinity, through the prism of generational inheritance/transmission. Like a thread stretching between tradition and modernity, ancestral practices and values clash with the imperatives of a world in rapid mutation.

The six photographs in this new series intersperse indoor scenes and natural landscapes, creating a visually bewildering dialogue. The masculine domestic elements have been selected carefully for their capacity to evoke specific periods and definite social contexts. They become symbols of the weight of traditions, of codes and of inherited responsibilities.

Maria Friberg's work can be found among others in the collections of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Stockholm's Moderna Museet.

Running from 13 September to 7 December 2024, Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m., and by appointment.