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Lina Selander

Lenin?s Lamp Glows In the Peasant?s Hut,

Vidéo | hdv | noir et blanc | 23:50 | Suède | 2011

Lina Selander offers a subtle meditation on the long-term historical effects provoked both socially and ethically by the Soviet utopia of the production of energy, summarised in Lenin?s slogan from 1920: ?Communism is Soviet Power plus the electrification of the whole country?. The elements of Lenin?s Lamp equally reject an idea of films, photographs or videos as neutral accretions of visual information. The elements of this film are to be seen both as material witnesses of the experience of modernisation and as agents of the very same history. From Dziga Vertov?s film The Eleventh Year (1928) to and video recordings from the Chernobyl disaster and the ghost city of Pripyat to images of fossils in museums and prehistorical landscapes, Selander?s images consist of sensory materials.

LINA SELANDER (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lina Selander works mainly with moving images in film and video, but also with photography, text and sound. Her works are often installations where these different medias and components converge and interrelate to one another. She is interested in the image?s ability and lack of ability to reproduce time, experience and memories and she explores how different narrative forms and techniques transform and change a story. Her works investigate !lm as medium, examining its possibilities and limitations as form of expression, and they often raise questions about history and authenticity. Selander?s work has been shown at Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Bonniers Konsthall, Moderna Museet and in international group shows, biennales and festivals, for example in the Manifesta 9 in Genk, Bucharest Biennale 2010, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam and Transmediale 05 in Berlin where she received an honourable mention from the jury.