RAKEL BERGMAN FRÖBERG
Born 1994
"In my various projects, I often return to the borderland between identities – the self and the half-human, half-creature – and here I assume different positions and conditions. I explore the sensitive borders between power and need, between care and violence. These are highly sensitive borders that are so often transgressed, often with a focus on human hands and their deeds.
It's about twins, mirror beings, relationships and sisterhood. About grief and loss. About gathering and profusion.
Always with the pen or knife as a compass. My works are my journal. The projects are about life and the afterlife, about arrival, grief, birth, borderlands, and the portal that takes us between these worlds. I have to remember, fill the loss with everything that's good, find the feeling and the heart, and make it stay. That's a lot of weight to carry.
Everyday life is increasingly unpredictable, and the border between close contact and total chaos feels closer than ever. I'm trying to reach the border. I like to ask questions, but I don't always give the easy answers."
Master's degree 2021, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts