Sara Appelgren

Born: Nykoping, Sweden
Lives: Stockholm, Sweden

I work with photography in long-term projects concentrated on subjects that deals with semiotic and set design issues. How meaning and comprehension is established and constructed visually. How we experience, and in various ways are affected by, the surrounding environment or context. How expectations are created. I’m fascinated by the ambiguous space between what we perceive and how we interpret it — what we understand.

These past years my photographic work has centred around shows and performances and their context. The audience, the expectations and the architecture. As spectators we participate in and influence an experience. Where do our projections begin and where does the performance take over? Under which conditions do we share an experience?

Education

2004

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
  • Set Up
    Fotograficentrum, Örebro, Sweden
2006
2005
  • Setting the Scene (with R. Gombojav)
    Blue Sun Art Gallery, Ulan Bator, Mongolia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
2007
2004
  • New Swedish Photography 2004
    Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden

Selected Bibliography

2010
2006

Selected Awards and Grants

2009
  • Working Grant, 2-year
    The Arts Grants Committeé, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
2008
2007
  • Stockholm City Cultural Grant
    The Culture Committee, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
  • Working Grant, 1-year
    The Arts Grants Committeé, Stockholm, Sweden

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