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Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel

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Francesca Woodman is considered one of the world’s foremost photographers, and her work has inspired generations of other artists. Now a comprehensive retrospective of her photographs is being shown in the Öresund region for the first time. In the exhibition at #modernamuseet Malmö, visitors will get a chance to discover and explore Woodman’s distinctive and captivating art.

Starting on November 5, the entire upper level of #modernamuseet Malmö is being devoted to the American photographer #francescawoodman (1958–1981). Exploring Woodman’s imagery is a challenge and an adventure, and her photographs address issues that still feel relevant today. The end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s, when Woodman was working as an artist, was a time of transition and many photographers who had been working in the traditional black-and-white idiom began experimenting with other methods. Woodman created a captivating and wide-ranging collection of photographic images—primarily portraits of herself and her friends—that explore issues of gender, representation, sexuality, and body. She often worked in alternative environments, and frequently we find props such as glass and mirrors in her pictures.

“The small format of Francesca Woodman’s photographs compels us as viewers to get right up close to them, creating an intimacy with her photographs and her imagery,” says Anna Tellgren, the exhibition’s curator. “But she also worked with large formats, which are rather startling and invite alternative ways to interpret and perceive her work.”

Growing up in a family of artists, Woodman began making photographs when she was thirteen years old. When she died just nine years later, she left behind an extensive body of work, of which some eight hundred gelatin silver photographs have been preserved.

Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel presents about a hundred of the artist’s photographs, from early student work to her later experiments with large-format diazotypes as well as a unique video piece. Woodman’s art is usually divided into five different periods: her early work, her years at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Italy, at MacDowell Colony, and finally in New York. The works included in the exhibition are a representative selection of most of the different series and thematic groups with which she worked, such as Polka Dots (1976), From Angel Series (1977), Swan Song (1978), Charlie the Model (1976–77), and her great Caryatid (Study for a Temple Project) (1980).

Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel was first shown at #modernamuseet in Stockholm in 2015, and since then has been on tour to the FOAM Photography Museum in Amsterdam and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. The exhibition has been highly acclaimed by critics and the visiting public alike. It is accompanied by a catalogue that includes every one of the photographs in the show, as well as essays by author Anna-Karin Palm, curator Anna Tellgren, and Francesca Woodman’s father, the artist George Woodman.

With support from the City of Malmö, Region Skåne and the national government of Sweden.

Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel

Moderna Museet Malmö, 5 November, 2016–19 March, 2017
Curator: Anna Tellgren

Invitation to the press preview on Thursday 3 November at 10.00

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