Emma Hjelm

Subjects that she investigates include loneliness, longing, everyday life and the feeling of being uncomfortable. She likes to inquisitively study a movement with the help of loops and repetitions. Through a combination of sound and human voices, the impression is conveyed that a room or object has a consciousness and remembers what it has experienced. In this way it can tell its story.

The video work Suspense is based on the idea that all fictional characters actually exist. The characters live with each other in an inner house in which they are waiting to be used. The film portrays this house, in which the characters are housed in the different rooms. The different materials and techniques of the animation reflect their waiting and their desire to be ready to come out into the world.

Exhibited works, degree exhibition

Suspense, Video, stop motion animation, mixed media, 13 min

Interview

Emma Hjelm 1988, Stockholm (Swedish).