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Hanna Abrahamsson
You’re finally home

28.06. – 20.07.2025
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    "You're finally home" Installation view Essay film / still image video, 8:00 min 2024 “You’re finally home” looks at social media and internet trends interconnecting with nostalgia, dreams and familiarity and introduces them through the lens of liminality. In the video “You’re finally home” familiar places of childhood are revisited, and internet found material infiltrates a personal point of view. They enter the world of digital collective memory constructed from TV, cinema, and the internet, or “third memory” as described by Bernard Stiegler. The personal memory’s mixture with other fairytales and the generic nature of digital material combined with the sense of transience and softness that nostalgia suggests.
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    "You're finally home" Screenshot Essay film / still image video, 8:00 min 2024 “You’re finally home” looks at social media and internet trends interconnecting with nostalgia, dreams and familiarity and introduces them through the lens of liminality. In the video “You’re finally home” familiar places of childhood are revisited, and internet found material infiltrates a personal point of view. They enter the world of digital collective memory constructed from TV, cinema, and the internet, or “third memory” as described by Bernard Stiegler. The personal memory’s mixture with other fairytales and the generic nature of digital material combined with the sense of transience and softness that nostalgia suggests.
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    "You're finally home" Screenshot Essay film / still image video, 8:00 min 2024
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    "You're finally home" Screenshot Essay film / still image video, 8:00 min 2024
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    Astor’s playing Installation view Video, 04:00 min 2023 A child is playing, from day to night. In the video, the play becomes a form of an act of resistance from reality, where time and space do not exist. Perhaps is the only instance one is free and safe at the same time?
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    Astor’s playing Installation view Video, 04:00 min 2023 A child is playing, from day to night. In the video, the play becomes a form of an act of resistance from reality, where time and space do not exist. Perhaps is the only instance one is free and safe at the same time?

Exhibition at Stefan Stambolovo 36th Street

Through photography, video, and text I explore the subconscious in human behavior. I work with symbols to understand humans as part of a larger societal structure and how it involuntarily affects our feelings and actions. Place, memory, and the transience of life are another recurring themes in my practice. With a starting point from the pre-existing, I collect images and stories to find connections between them, to highlight what often can be overlooked. In many of my works I move between the personal and the universal, between past and present, in a hybrid of the staged and the documentary.

The exhibitions consists of two video works (“You’re finally home” and” Astor’s playing”) They both explore our relationships to places – both imaginary and tangible and ask questions about security, control and the connection to evanescence. The two works are based on a mixture of memory and fantasy and illustrate the sense of alienation and a feeling of being disconnect to “real life”. - Hanna Abrahamsson

Hanna Abrahamsson (1989, SE) is an artist, educated at HDK-Valand Academy of Art, Biskops Arnö documentary film school and Stockholm University. Recent exhibition and screenings have been staged in But so it goes, CLOSING SOON (Athens, GR)Dental Chambers, Okay Initiative Space gallery (Athens, GR) How far from here, Sauna (Warsaw, PL) Walking Fumes, Escape nonono (Paris, FR) Open Studios, CoGalleries / part of Berlin Gallery Weekend (Berlin, DE) In and Out, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Gdansk, PL) Indhegning, Sydhavn Teater (Copenhagen, DK).

The exhibition and residency are supported by the Swedish Arts Committee and Helge ax:son Johnsson. Many thanks to Tequila Bar Fnky Mnky for serving free drinks.

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