Filmform (est. 1950) is dedicated to preservation, promotion and worldwide distribution of experimental film and video art. Constantly expanding, the distribution catalogue spans from 1924 to the present, including works by Sweden’s most prominent artists and filmmakers, available to rent for public screenings and exhibitions as well as for educational purposes.
CONJUNCTION consists of a fragmentary montage of images and text that reflects on how the timeless desire to foresee events has shaped a reading of traces in images. Through a gaze directed at criminal anthropology and forensic imagery, where the reading of traces is most present, a vision emerges of how a Renaissance magical mode of thinking has migrated into the realms of science.
The montage itself becomes a reflection of the associative thinking shaped by the superstitious field of vision. It constitutes a mode of reading in which the image is understood as a system of signs, where outward appearances mirror the invisible inner relations between things
Joel Danielsson & Louise Öhman’s visual practice oscillates between the reflections of memory and a speculative perspective as it unfolds across endless stretches of time and dimensions. They reshape historical events through a special interest in the structure of the image, through its haunting qualities and the transforming, animating or petrifying movements it may perform.
With attention to detail, they are conscious about the materiality of the image. In compositions with both found footage and various forms of image production their practice questions technology and its forms of representation. Their work materializes as a multi-layered speculative montage layering past, present and future in conjunctions of video, sound, text, photography and installation.
Joel Danielsson (1988, SE) and Louise Öhman (1989, SE) have collaborated since 2014. They studied Fine Art at Umeå Academy of Fine Art, Sweden and The Art Academy of Bergen, Norway. They are based in Stockholm, Sweden.
