TUIJA LINDSTRÖM: LOVE & DEATH

23 January 2024

The exhibition presents a retrospective of Tuija Lindström’s best-known photographs but also lesser-known video works and audio material that together provide a broad overview of her artistic work.

In the exhibition Love & Death, the visitor gets to meet Tuija Lindström’s early works from the 1980s, when she developed her own style in the analog darkroom. With the help of filtered light in the developing device, she produced the characteristic over-radiation that gave the motifs a soft and dreamy expression.

The exhibition at Landskrona Foto also shows the image suite with accompanying video work, Kvinnorna vid Tjursjön (1991), which made Tuija Lindström known to a large audience and which is still her most famous work. Over the years, Lindström came to test himself with different expressions and techniques that are here represented in, among other things, the cameraless image suite Nepenthes Laughing (2010) where carnivorous plants are placed directly in a scanner, and Roman Road’s (2007) kaleidoscope-like montage of plant parts that are presented as round abstracted patterns.

What has been less known of Tuija Lindström’s artistic works are her films, where above all the film Love & Death (2004) connects life with art and creates a new understanding of the whole of her works.