Lena Mattsson mainly works with video and film, where she portrays everyday situations that are transformed and which ultimately make us think about deeper questions in our existence. The film triptych Unexpected Visit is shown in the exhibition. Lena Mattsson is interested in how our perception relates to being, time and space. With a poetic and sensitive visual language, she touches on existential themes in our lives. A magical realism appears in the works, the seemingly obvious takes on another dimension and the works are filled with a deeper symbolism. The contrast between the obvious and a deeper meaning creates a duality between surface and depth that gives tension to her work. Unexpected Visit In the film triptych Unexpected Visit, we see how a child/young person climbs up and down a ladder. The symbolism surrounding the ladder is complex and can be interpreted in many different ways and shows all the changes in life, how the child grows up, develops and is socialized into society and perhaps climbs up the social ladder, and then goes down again. The descent means the opposite and that you have to start all over again – the pendulum swings.

• Trefwoorden
  monografie, film, video, beeld- en/of geluidsdrager
• Geografisch trefwoord
  Zweden (SE)
• Persoonstrefwoord
  Lena Mattsson