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| Helena Blomqvist Works Vita | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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*1975, Sweden The Swedish artist Helena Blomqvist integrates both humans and animals in her photo collages, thereby creating a surreal—and sometimes distressing—world. These snapshots of life are reminiscences of Tim Burton’s film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Infantile horror figures move across abstract arrangements of rooms, as well as through time. The artist uses different media, including photography, painting, needlework and collage, to create images with a coherent appearance and visual effect. Blomqvist, in reference to her well-known series, The Dark Planet, writes: “The dark planet is about the magical, fantastical and surreal; larger than life moments in photographs that takes you to an alternative world. The themes are dreams, yearning, vulnerability, loneliness, death, the supernatural, and the threatening darkness of the night.” www.HelenaBlomqvist.com |
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