Artist Statement
To depict people and places is my way of fixing my eyes and understanding the world around me. I attach great importance the way bodies move and the relationship between body postures. I am drawn to nature, and to skin. Skin submitted, nature abandoned. Nature and skin that are exposed and the link between them. Where we belong. I often use many of the images to create a sense of being trapped in a repetition of emotions. In contrast to the images themselves should feel corruptible. Leaving marks that portray the presence of an absence. Tracks in the picture indicate a past event but leave a mystique about them. The story is left open, more like a silent trembling vacuum.
Process Statement
I work with dimmed, pale colors so as not to create too much drama. It looks beautiful, but if you go near you sense the pain and that something is not right. I am drawn to people who struggle a lot with inner or outer problems. With my camera I create a peaceful place in a chaotic world, creating order where there is no order. I work with a subtle language where what is happening is below the surface. As tension ready to crack or be stuck in a glass cup. To view a image of something that people might have preconceptions about, even be afraid of. I hope to develop a sensitivity for the viewers to get them to feel compassion for the person or the landscape.
Hannah Modigh
1980, Stockholm
www.hannahmodigh.se
+46 733096460
info@hannahmodigh.se
Hannah Modigh was born in Stockholm but spent big parts of her childhood in India and on österlen in the south of Sweden. She has during her adult life lived in Paris and Copenhagen and is now living and working in Stockholm.
Studies
Fatamorgana Photo School, Copenhagen, Denmark 2002-2003.
Nordic School of Photography, Photo Journalism, Biskops Arnö, Sweden 2004 – 2007
Royal Institute of art, Stockholm 2012-2013
Photo projects
* The Milkyway: Is about the time between 12 – 15 years old. Where there is a lot of struggle outer pressure and inner chaos. Feeling like an adult but is looked at as a child. Is a apart of a group exhibition touring around Europe in 2012 and 2013. Solo exhibition and book may 2014.
*Internal Lightning Is about a young girl who is a heroin addict and lives on the countryside with mother in Slovenia. Is in the book “Berätta inte för någon” “Do not tell anyone”.
*Hillbilly heroin, honey A history of poverty and the life around the coalmines has shaped St Charles. The feeling of vacuum and timelessness hit me during my time there. Is in the book and exhibition “Hillbilly heroin, honey”
*Sunday mornin´ comin down. Feeling of awake with bad memories, feeling alone, having anxiety and just want to flee the light. Pictures of young man in vulnerable situations in San Francisco. Is in the book and exhibition "Sunday morning com in down"
*Hurricane Season under working progress
Group Exhibitions
VIE, fealledsparken, Copenhagen, Denmark
Möte med Grekland, Nordic School of Photograpy, Biskops Arnö, Sweden 2004
Berätta inte för någon, Gallery Kontrast, Sweden 2006
Planket, Stockhom Sweden, Berlin Germany 2008, 2011, 2012
Centrum För Fotografi, Stockholm, Sweden 2009, 2010, 2013
EPEA House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2012
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France, 2012
Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Italy, 2012
Nobel peace center, Oslo, Norway, 2013
Solo exhibitions
Hillbilly heroin, honey, TTC Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2008, Arbetets museum, Norrköping Sweden 2009, Mikrokosmos, Vadstena Sweden 2009, Kristianstads sjukhus Sweden 2009, Färgfabriken The Colour Factory, Sweden 2009, Konstlustans Galleri CSK, Kristianstad Sweden 2009, Gallery Format Malmö Sweden 2010, Gallery kontrast, Stockholm Sweden 2010, Fotomässan, Älvsjö, Sweden 2010, Gallery Luova, Helsingfors Finland 2011, Fotomuseet, Sundsvall Sweden 2011
Sunday mornin´comin´down, Gallery kontrast, Stockholm Sweden, 2011 - 2012, Gallery valfisken, Simrishamn, Sweden, 2012, Gallery London, Uppsala, Sweden, 2013
The Milkyway, Maaemo Oslo, Norway 2013
Festivals
Landskrona photo feastival, Sweden 2013, Gallery 1
FotoDoks Festival, Munich Germany , 2013
Exhibitions coming up
Galleri London, Uppsala, Sala Silvergruva, Fotomuseet Sundsvall, Värmlands museum, Sweden 2014.
Books, Catalogues
Berätta inte för någon, Kartago 2005
Taxis pleins, taxis vides, JSBJ, 2009
Planket, 2008, 2011, 2012
Hillbilly heroin honey, Journal, 2010
EPEA, European identities, 2011
Sunday mornin´comin´down, Journal, 2012
30 , Nordens fotoskola, 2013
FotoDoks Festival, 2013
Public Art
Stockholms sjukhem, Sweden, 2013
Vasakrona Stockholm, Sweden 2013
Grants, awards and nominations
Fatamorgana praktikantplats, 2003
Scanpix working scholarship, 2008
Stockholm’s culture price 2009
Swedish arts grants committee 2009
Swedish arts grants committee 2010
Artist o the year 2009, Beat magazine.
Hillbilly heroin, honey Photo book of the year, Sweden, 2010.
EYE magazines list of best books of 2010.
European Photo Exhibition Award, 2011
Arbetets Museums pris för bildverksamhet med dokumentär inriktning, 2011
Authors fund 2012
Längmanska stiftelsen 2012
Swedish arts grants committee 2012
Kavalla residency, SFF 2013
Winner of TT Big Photo Award, 2013
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