RAKEL BERGMAN FRÖBERG

Born 1994

"In my various projects, I often return to the borderland between identities – the self and the half-human, half-creature – and here I assume different positions and conditions. I explore the sensitive borders between power and need, between care and violence. These are highly sensitive borders that are so often transgressed, often with a focus on human hands and their deeds.
It's about twins, mirror beings, relationships and sisterhood. About grief and loss. About gathering and profusion.

Always with the pen or knife as a compass. My works are my journal. The projects are about life and the afterlife, about arrival, grief, birth, borderlands, and the portal that takes us between these worlds. I have to remember, fill the loss with everything that's good, find the feeling and the heart, and make it stay. That's a lot of weight to carry.
Everyday life is increasingly unpredictable, and the border between close contact and total chaos feels closer than ever. I'm trying to reach the border. I like to ask questions, but I don't always give the easy answers."

Master's degree 2021, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts

Selma Morshedi Den Tänkande Handen teckning utställning

RAKEL BERGMAN FRÖBERG

Rakel Bergman Fröberg participates in the scholarship competition and exhibition with seven drawings created 2023.

Drawing in wood.

1. Invocation 1
2. Invocation 3
3. Threads of Life
4. Invocation 7
5. Invocation 5
6. Invocation 6
7. Threads of Life


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THE SELECTION COMMITTEE'S MOTIVATION:
Rakel Bergman Fröberg's deeply moving pictures are her journal. They are drawn using a knife in dark stained wood, like reverse woodcuts. Her themes and her subjects require the sharpness and symbolism of the knife as an indication of the blackness of the narrative, in which mirror beings, twins and sisterhood are common motifs. As she explores the fragile borderland between power and need, and between care and violence, grief and loss are omnipresent in her expressive works.

Invocation 1
Drawing in wood, 2023. Original size 50 x 35 cm.
Invocation 3
Drawing in wood, 2023. Original size 65 x 45 cm.
Threads of Life
Drawing in wood 2023. Original size, 60 x 40 cm.
Invocation 7
Drawing in wood, 2023. Original size 55 x 55 cm.
Invocation 5
Drawing in wood, 2023. Original size 40 x 35 cm.
Invocation 6
Drawing in wood, 2023. Original size 130 x 70 cm.
Threads of Life
Drawing in wood, 2023. Original size 50 x 30 cm.