Lina Selander [se] - The Hours That Hold the Forms, 15:00, 2007

An arrangement of images from the Spanish-French border town of Portbou, where the philosopher Walter Benjamin ended his life. These visual motifs are accompanied by a single voice relaying the experiences of political refugees. Like the images, the stories are fragmentary and impressionistic within the total composition. The title is taken from a quotation from Benjamin's One-Way Street, and continues: "have passed in the house of dreams".
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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, memories and experience and she explores how different narrative forms and techniques transform and change a story. Her works have been shown at many art centers and festivals. She also received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin prize for young artists. Lina lives and works in Stockholm.

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