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LILY ROBERT is pleased to participate in ARTISSIMA 2019 with a solo presentation of
— JOSEFIN ARNELL —
curated by Fabio Santacroce
Made possible by the support of The Mondriaan Fund





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Floating between aspects of documentary and fiction, Josefin Arnell’s work methodically navigates the space between exuberance and self-exploitation. Her often favored medium of video freely traverses digital and physical boundaries, including performance, installation, objects, poetry and drawings. Through storytelling, loose narratives are often centered around characters that attempt to navigate contemporary infrastructures with impossible demands. These characters veer toward endless monologues rather than conversations, meanwhile interlacing in a sort of metasphere to compose a script. By often choosing to work with non-actors, she captures a rawness that reflects an emotional landscape exploring unattainable desires, perfectionism and control. The teenage girl, the horse and the mother are recurring characters alongside clumsy allegories wrestling with conflicts of the human condition or environmental catastrophes. In addition to her solo work, she is also active in various collective projects and self-initiatives—most notably, HellFun, a collaboration between Josefin Arnell & Max Göran. HellFun makes films and performances, preferring to be brave and pathetic rather than drowning in shame. Another collaborative platform, Horsegirl, is run with artist Natasja Loutchko exploring intimacy and sisterhood. HorseGirl is currently developing their first feature film, starring both of the artists’ mothers.

In 2018, Josefin Arnell was awarded the Theodora Niemeijer Prijs—a prize for emerging female artists based in the Netherlands, which additionally resulted in a commissioned exhibition at Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven). Arnell’s work has also been presented at International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam), Kunsthalle Münster (Münster), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (Vilnius), and Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2018 (Moscow). From 2015 to 2016, she participated in the two-year residency program Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam). She holds an MA in Dirty Art from Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam).






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