Biography

In Love Enqvist’s work, there is a concern with how we stand in relation to one another, how relation is constantly in flux determines community and how individuality is inextricably bound to relation.His projects draw upon the process of living and the condition of life; looking at spaces of resistance.There is a concern with representation, and ideas on how to live together; ideas and individuals whose stories haunts our present; social and spacial change and what is inscribed in the collective history and memory.

As everyday observations form a starting point, the context directs, positions and forms the work. Diggers and Dreamers draws upon a myriad of utopian visions which are expressed through architecture, community and personal reflections. Using film, performance, sound, photography and objects, his work occupies a place that is pervaded by a sense of elusiveness, a search for something that exists as much in the imagination as anywhere else.

In The Cooperative Human we look back at the past looking forward in order to get a vision of the future seeking an expression for the commons

Diggers and Dreamers draws upon a myriad of utopian visions where the notion of a social document is transformed to re-present a heterogeneous relationship to language and meaning.

The expanded film essay Magellania, explores the lapse between image and language. Through processes of mediation, translation and abstraction, and a series of workshops, the initial materials are being re-read, and given the components of props, sound score and performance.

The journey to and from the everyday becomes a constant theme. The body moves and the journey’s end is undefined, unfinished even. Here the works occupy a site of physicality, a way of residing in the world that implies borders and confines, yet also the freedom of humanity.

Love Enqvist has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, such as the biennials in Istanbul and Gothenburg and Living. Louisiana Art Museum. (Denmark) 2011. In 2015 he was a resident of Gasworks (London) and in 2017 he won the Celeste award for the best film. He is also founder of the project space Studio Giardini in Venice (Italy).Love Enqvist was born in Sweden and works in Stockholm, Venice and Berlin.

På Svenska.

Konstnären Love Enqvist är intresserad av utopiska idéer kring hur vi skulle kunna leva och förhålla oss till varandra. I mycket av Love Enqvists arbete läggs stor vikt vid människors relationer och hur sociala strukturer är i ständig förändring liksom samhället i stort. Love Enqvist arbetar med essäfilm, fotografi, skulptur och performance.

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Texts

Social Documents by Felicity Scott
Interview by Hinrich Sachs for Gothenburg Biennale

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