Surveillance

Imagined Events, Rites and Magical Realism - The Documentary Fiction of Jenny Källman. Young people portrayed alone or in small groups, often seemingly unaware of the eye of the camera, or ignoring it. The image's appear to deal with the inconspicuous moments of everyday social interactions. Still, despite the lack of action and the evasive motifs there is dramatic framing in the works, sometimes with dark shadows, unfocused lenses, slightly slanting angles. As if the images capture the very moment before something is about to happen. They seem to be re-enacted scenes from a film - or a combination of different movie memories - and the viewer is enticed, or even bound, to create a story to go along with the images. Jenny Källman combines the unsentimental with the sensitive, the poetic with the everyday, in captivating images that roam the borderland between the staged and the documentary. There is neither chance element nor truth claim here. The series of images could also be read as a photo-roman, or documentary fiction, including social rituals, unseen events, and authentic gestures, holding the joy of friendship and shared experiences, but also anxiety and the deepest sense of solitude. Jenny Källman was born in 1973 and has participated in several exhibitions in Sweden and abroad.