Artist Talk: Stackelberg, Clarén and Modigh
A conversation with exhibiting photographers Ewa Stackelberg, Anna Clarén and Hannah Modigh on the opening day of On Being Family
In On Being Family, the three photographers Ewa Stackelberg, Anna Clarén and Hannah Modigh focus on the family. Through three very different stories, the photographers explore what it can mean to be a family.
On Friday, April 11, we invite all three to a conversation, moderated by photography teacher Göran Segeholm.
We look forward to an evening with pictures and stories from three generations of photographers!
During the evening there is the opportunity to buy books for signing.
About the exhibition
In On Being Family, Modigh, Clarén and Stackelberg view childhood from different perspectives: the sister’s, mother’s and child’s. With their three separate photo series, they ask questions that are as personal as they are universal. Family can be the woman who is your anchor, the person who brushes your hair each morning during childhood but then disappears. To explore this type of loss, Hannah Modigh travelled to India to find this woman, a journey that she describes in Searching for Sivagami. It could also be a child that transforms you as an adult and that forces you to reevaluate what it means to need and be needed, as Anna Clarén describes in her series The Need to Be Needed, which looks at what it is like to be a parent of a child who will always need an adult at their side. Family can be love and protection but also open wounds passed on from one generation to the next, like the intricate fabric of relationships examined by Ewa Stackelberg in Now It’s Beautiful.