Frida Hultcrantz
9.1. - 7.2.2009
Katso: Juliste | CV*
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"Blue Room", 2007: Frida Hultcrantz
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Frida Hultcrantz
Frida Hultcrantz’s paintings are have a somewhat eerie feeling to them – like scenes from temporarily abandoned movie sets in which the viewer may feel drawn to write the script for.
Her pictures are motionless, yet packed with muffled emotions. And there is a certain darkness to them. The atmosphere in her paintings is of waiting – in empty rooms where one can still smell the scent of somebody.
Frida Hultcrantz writes:
Most of my works are unpeopled, and the resultant sense of emptiness suggests for me a sort of cross between horror and eroticism. It’s exactly this ‘lack of somebody’ that makes me want go there. I call it the ‘anonymous sexiness of absence’.
I’ve lately been thinking a lot about ‘the longing for something better in life’ that people around me – and myself as well – very often feel. It’s very seductive to dream of all those things we don’t possess, and perhaps never can.
Going to someone’s home to photograph a corner of their life and then making a painting out of it always seems to trigger fantasies about those people or places, and these fantasies tend to have a dark side – as most eroticism and thrillers do.
I love the work of Edward Hopper. In his paintings, the everyday life of his era seems like a mystery. I also very much like the work of the painter Eric Fischl. It’s a joy to experience works that are not so conceptual as to deny my fantasies.
I hope people feel quite safe when they view my works; it’s up to you to create your own story within them. I hope you can still smell the scent of someone in these rooms.