Sonia Hedstrand – Hemingway och jag
04.04 - 30.04.2025
The installation consists of memoirs written by a traveling artist. She has been everywhere, has seen everything, and had a guy in every harbour. But is it as romantic to be a bohemian on the road today, as it was when Hemingway reveled in Paris, Athens, Havana, or Málaga?
Video and performance-piece Hemingway and I is the first part of a longer project titled The Artist Travelogue, which explores the journey as narrative structure, and examines the significance of travel for artists throughout art history up to the present day—when, in many ways, travelling has become much more complicated and problematic.
Bio:
Sonia Hedstrand is an artist who works researche-based at the intersection of documentarism, essayism and sociological investigation, in installation, moving images, photography, performance, and artist books. Her work analyses deep structural changes in society from intersectional perspectives, as well as changes in the role of the artist and of art throughout history. Since November 2024, she is art editor for magazine Parabol (link). Since January 2025, she runs her own art criticism newsletter and podcast (link). Sonia holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Royal Institute of Art (2011) and is alumn of the Whitney Independent Study Program in NYC (2012).