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Maria Friberg, Embedded 5, 2006

Maria Friberg Swedish, b. 1966

Embedded 5, 2006
C-print
39 x 58 in.
99 x 148 cm.
Edition of 5 plus 2 AP
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The series 'Embedded' began as an investigation of the relationship between the natural world and the culturally conditioned world. As the title suggests, it is about a sense of security,...
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The series "Embedded" began as an investigation of the relationship between the natural world and the culturally conditioned world. As the title suggests, it is about a sense of security, about being surrounded and protected. But there is a duality in that state; it can also be seen as a kind of isolation, to be trapped and surrounded.

The men in the photographs and video triptychs with the name "Embedded" move slowly, like icebergs on the horizon. They are half awake, half asleep, and glide imperceptibly between the worlds of nature and culture.

Their movements are reminiscent of slow-motion waterfalls, polar bears on glaciers or something that is born—they are on their way somewhere, but where? The photographs reinforce the feeling that men look like abstract black shapes in a common cocoon. They are wrapped like linden children or draped in a common wrap.

Men are part of a constant flow, they come from all parts of the world, a world where everyone is at once unique and replaceable.

The pictures are about the beauty of nature, but also about how the world is slowly collapsing. Their subject is knowledge and power, but also the impossibility of gaining an overall picture, in private life as well as in the wider world.

In today's society, the information itself is embedded—it is at once public and hidden, enclosed in its own Trojan horse.
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