Hanna Abrahamsson

Statement

With an academic background in ethnology and through mediums such as photography, video and film I explore social relationships and human behaviour.

I work with ambivalence and symbols to understand us humans as part of larger societal structures and psychological phenomena and to examine how these are reflected in our everyday lives. In my work I often have a focus on power, dependency, and control and where the camera is used to put roles in new perspectives. In my recent projects I explore the relationship between child and adult and the role of the parent.

Besides that, I am also interested in the human relationship to time and the transience in life. In my works I move between the personal and the universal, between past and present, in a hybrid of the staged and the documentary.

GlogauAIR Project

Band consists of three video works that function together to explore questions surrounding power relations and dependency in a parent-child relationship with a focus on the relationship between mother and daughter. The three works use physical objects and the autobiographical as a way of making power visible as an involuntary activity and something that is moved and replaced over time. Band reveals an ambivalence and an interaction between the attentive and the violent.

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Education

• 2018- 2021 Bachelor program in fine art photography at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and design, Gothenburg.
• 2015-2016 Documentary film, Biskops Arnö Nordic film school, Stockholm
• 2014-2015 Fridhem photo school, Svalöv, Sweden
• 2010-2013 Cultural studies with a bachelor’s degree in ethnology and film studies at Stockholm University.

• I have exhibited photography and video art for example at the Gothenburg Art Museum, Gallery CC, Detroit Gallery, Supermarket Art Fair, Färgfabriken, Malmö Fotobiennal, Landskrona Photo festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal and Sydhavn Station. I have also shown films at the Stockmotion film festival, Video Art festival, Frame and Swedish short film festival.

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