Site-specific installation Ear to the ground and gaze outward
Kalmar Art Museum Småland Triennial 2023
Excerpt from a text by curator Sara Hemmingsson, Kalmar Art Museum:
"An uprooted tree root has formed the starting point for the installation Under Liv. Based on the root, various objects have sought their places in the room. For Anne Hamrin Simonsson, it is an intuitive search to find the right position in relation to the site. The title refers to life under the surface and how all life consists of several layers. Both the human body and, for example, trees are carriers of life. Trees also have an extensive network both above and below ground. The word 'under' [in Swedish] can also be read as 'miracle' or 'wonder'.
Anne Hamrin Simonsson creates her visual worlds around life's great questions, and recurring themes are birth, life, and death. She approaches existence with curiosity and wonder about its origins. The uprooted tree root can also be viewed as a map of a landscape. Is it a map of Småland we see? A projection on the floor next to the root shows selected map images from different geographic areas on Earth. Rivers and roads wind their way like the body's internal systems. The similarity to images from inside the body and its vessels and tissues becomes clear. Everything shares the same core and rhythm, the topography of the body and nature.
Through her investigations, she shifts perspectives between the micro and macro levels in both scale and meaning. Another approach to the uprooted tree root is that it can be viewed as a cabinet of curiosities. A magnificent cabinet, popular during the Renaissance in Europe, to display and store collections of art, nature, curiosities, and scientific discoveries. The cabinet of curiosities is a predecessor to how museums for the public were later organized. Placed within the root are objects featuring miniature figures, ornaments, and DNA-bearing materials such as chewing gum, nails, and hair.
For the exhibition, she has chosen to examine shifts in perspective and the relationship between nature and culture in yet another way. High up on the museum's facade, facing the sea, sits a spruce top. As a visitor, you must step out of the exhibition room to discover it. What happens in the landscape when directions change and perspectives are no longer given?"
Under_Liv
Site-specific installation with an uprooted tree root, spruce, seven sculptures, twenty-eight objects, video featuring maps and the sound of a knee recorded via doppler, dog basket with paper, wool cake.
Materials: chewing gum, hair, nails, horsehair, silicone, rubber, glue, nylon stockings, miniature figures in plastic and porcelain, concrete, clay, beeswax, dried flowers, salt dough, horn, stone, balls, fabric, spruce needles, rhubarb stalk, paraffin, mirror, glass, waxed thread, straw, wheat, eraser, wool, plaster.
Under Liv catalog, Kalmar Art Museum 2023
Barometern, Frida Lindström June 10, 2023
Kalmar Läns Tidning, Lina Watanen June 1, 2023
Mother Earth, Anne Hamrin Simonsson, YouTube, November 2, 2023
Site-specific installation Ear to the ground and gaze outward
Kalmar Art Museum Småland Triennial 2023
Excerpt from a text by curator Sara Hemmingsson, Kalmar Art Museum:
"An uprooted tree root has formed the starting point for the installation Under Liv. Based on the root, various objects have sought their places in the room. For Anne Hamrin Simonsson, it is an intuitive search to find the right position in relation to the site. The title refers to life under the surface and how all life consists of several layers. Both the human body and, for example, trees are carriers of life. Trees also have an extensive network both above and below ground. The word 'under' [in Swedish] can also be read as 'miracle' or 'wonder'.
Anne Hamrin Simonsson creates her visual worlds around life's great questions, and recurring themes are birth, life, and death. She approaches existence with curiosity and wonder about its origins. The uprooted tree root can also be viewed as a map of a landscape. Is it a map of Småland we see? A projection on the floor next to the root shows selected map images from different geographic areas on Earth. Rivers and roads wind their way like the body's internal systems. The similarity to images from inside the body and its vessels and tissues becomes clear. Everything shares the same core and rhythm, the topography of the body and nature.
Through her investigations, she shifts perspectives between the micro and macro levels in both scale and meaning. Another approach to the uprooted tree root is that it can be viewed as a cabinet of curiosities. A magnificent cabinet, popular during the Renaissance in Europe, to display and store collections of art, nature, curiosities, and scientific discoveries. The cabinet of curiosities is a predecessor to how museums for the public were later organized. Placed within the root are objects featuring miniature figures, ornaments, and DNA-bearing materials such as chewing gum, nails, and hair.
For the exhibition, she has chosen to examine shifts in perspective and the relationship between nature and culture in yet another way. High up on the museum's facade, facing the sea, sits a spruce top. As a visitor, you must step out of the exhibition room to discover it. What happens in the landscape when directions change and perspectives are no longer given?"
Under_Liv
Site-specific installation with an uprooted tree root, spruce, seven sculptures, twenty-eight objects, video featuring maps and the sound of a knee recorded via doppler, dog basket with paper, wool cake.
Materials: chewing gum, hair, nails, horsehair, silicone, rubber, glue, nylon stockings, miniature figures in plastic and porcelain, concrete, clay, beeswax, dried flowers, salt dough, horn, stone, balls, fabric, spruce needles, rhubarb stalk, paraffin, mirror, glass, waxed thread, straw, wheat, eraser, wool, plaster.
Under Liv catalog, Kalmar Art Museum 2023
Barometern, Frida Lindström June 10, 2023
Kalmar Läns Tidning, Lina Watanen June 1, 2023
Mother Earth, Anne Hamrin Simonsson, YouTube, November 2, 2023
Platsspecifik installation Örat mot marken och blicken utåt
Kalmar konstmuseum Smålandstriennalen 2023
Utdrag ur text av curator Sara Hemmingsson, Kalmar konstmuseum:
"En rotvälta har bildat utgångspunkt till installationen Under Liv. Utifrån rotvältan har olika objekt sökt sina platser i rummet. För Anne Hamrin Simonsson handlar det om ett intuitivt sökande för att hitta rätt position i förhållande till platsen. Titeln syftar till liv under ytan och hur allt liv består av flera lager. Både människokroppen och till exempel träd är bärare av liv. Träd har även ett vidsträckt nätverk både ovan och under jord. Ordet 'under' kan även läsas som 'mirakel'.
Anne Hamrin Simonsson skapar sina bildvärldar kring livets stora frågor och återkommande teman är födelse, liv och död. Hon tar sig an tillvaron med nyfikenhet och förundran över dess ursprung. Rotvältan kan även betraktas som en kartbild över ett landskap. Är det en karta över Småland vi ser? En projektion på golvet bredvid rotvältan visar utvalda kartbilder från olika geografiska områden på jorden. Floder och vägar slingrar sig fram likt kroppens inre system. Likheten med bilder inifrån kroppen och dess kärl och vävnader blir tydlig. Allt har samma kärna och rytm, kroppens och naturens topografi.
Genom sina undersökningar växlar hon perspektiv mellan mikro och makronivå i både skala och betydelse. Ytterligare en ingång till rotvältan är att den går att betrakta som en kuriosakabinett. Ett praktfullt skåp, populärt under renässansen i Europa, för att visa upp och förvara samlingar av konst, natur, kuriosa och vetenskapliga upptäckter. Kuriosakabinetten är en föregångare till hur museer för allmänheten senare organiserades. I rotvältan finns objekt placerade med miniatyrfigurer, prydnadsföremål och DNA-bärande material såsom tuggummi, naglar och hår.
Till utställningen har hon valt att på ytterligare ett sätt undersöka perspektivförskjutningar och förhållandet mellan natur och kultur. Högt upp på museets fasad, mot sjösidan, sitter en grantopp. Som besökare måste du gå ut från utställningsrummet för att upptäcka den. Vad sker i landskapet när riktningar förändras och perspektiven inte längre är givna?"
Under_Liv
Platsspecifik installation med rotvälta, gran, sju skulpturer, tjugoåtta objekt, video med kartbilder och ljud från knä inspelat via doppler, hundkorg med papper, ullkaka.
Material: tuggummi, hår, naglar, tagel, silikon, gummi, lim, nylonstrumpor, miniatyrfigurer i plast och porslin, betong, lera, bivax, eterneller, trolldeg, horn, sten, bollar, tyg, granbarr, rabarberstjälk, paraffin, spegel, glas, vaxad tråd, halm, vete, radergummi, ull, gips.
Under Liv katalog, Kalmar konstmuseum 2023
Barometern, Frida Lindström 10/6 2023
Kalmar Läns Tidning, Lina Watanen 1/6 2023
Mother Earth, Anne Hamrin Simonsson, YouTube, 2/11, 2023
