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march 23, 2023 - Wetterling gallery

NATHALIA EDENMONT'S ANNIVERSARY POSTER - featuring the recognizable work "Star"

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Edenmont's emblematic exhibition Still Life (2003), the artist is releasing a celebratory poster of the artwork Star (2002). Still Life was the target of a physical attack by masked extreme-right groups, who claimed that Edenmont's art "should not exist". This exhibition has since become one of the artist's most iconic and controversial creations.

Edenmont's "Still Life" series examines moral and ethical structures, challenging social norms while navigating within the same ethical, legal, and moral boundaries that apply to our society. She questions why only certain forms of animal suffering outrage viewers, and why one still struggles to redefine our relationship with nature and the environment. Might these questions be, perhaps, even more relevant today than 20 years ago?

The signed poster, titled Still Life, was conceived in two sizes. This collector's item embodies Edenmont's essence and her decades-long command of photography as a medium while addressing discussions that appear at least as urgent today as they were 20 years ago.

"Like marionettes, we sit, placed upon the fingers of society and of power (as in "Star"). In the hand of conformism, powdered and adorned with frilly collars as it is, we are safe and secure, but, alas, oh so dead. We delude ourselves that we are alive. "We are blond. We are blind." A cruel picture, though -- and mark this well -- not the cruelty of the artist, but rather the cruelty of an art that sets the truth free. If the white mice form the points of the devil's pentagram, or symbolize the five points of the Soviet national symbol -- the red star, they, at the same time, also point out something that exists right in our midst, in "the land of the blond," where we live. Yet do we want to see it?"- Lars O Ericsson, 2003