Family life
Subtitle: the artist's hidden secrets
By: Lars Embäck ; introduction, Ulf Peter Hallberg ; afterword, "Lars Embäck and the Malmö art tradition," William Crona ; translation, William Crona
Contributors: Hallberg, Ulf Peter, writer of introduction; Crona, William, writer of afterword, translator
Edition: First edition.
Series: Spleen Nordic Art
Publisher: Spleen Nordic
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789151952826
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Artists; Biography
Description: A father and a mother are scarred in separate traffic accidents. In the family home, the effects of their trauma ring like an echo in the lives of their children.0Several decades later, Lars Embäck explores and processes memories of a compliƯcated childhood through writing, drawing and collage. In parallel, the past as it has been preserved in medical records, official transcripts, photographs and newspaper cuttings are open to him and the reader. Together, the two parts reflect each other like changeable repetitions in an elusive pattern.0"Family Life" is the culmination of more than two decades of exhibitions, artƯworks and installations in which the artist Lars Embäck has tried to address the legacy of his difficult childhood and his relationship to his troubled parents.
Notes: Translated from the original Swedish.