Annika Ström’s songs, text pieces and films all touch on the question of inadequacy – if not miserable failure. The content and aesthetics repeatedly play with the notion of imperfection. Ström's text pieces are clearly hand painted, the videos include shaky, blurred images, and her rhythm-box compositions flirt with an amateurish Eurovision aesthetic. Her relationship with the means of production is calculated to form an inherent problem between technologies or tools and her own manufacture. For this exhibition Ström presents 2 works. A video piece Min Mobil, looks at our everyday relationships with mobile phone. The second is a text painting, Remove Me,  addressing the frustration of internet communication from outside of the same format.

For the book, Annika has included several text and image works. The pieces appear to be stories acting as declarations about how technology backgrounds our daily lives. We see how we ignore it or find it difficult.

Min Mobil / My Mobile (top)

2003 7:20 min

Remove Me (bottom)

2008, Text painting, 153 cmx 250 cm

ANNIKA STRÖM

Images courtesy of the artist