Annika Larsson Beckers Art Award 2002

Scholarship exhibition
Main hall and one of the Project rooms, Färgfabriken

The 17th Beckers Art Award – a grant of 150 000 SEK – will be awarded to Annika Larsson. She was born in 1972 and completed her artistic training at Royal Art Academy in Stockholm (Royal University College of Fine Arts).

Annika Larsson will show two new installations, both from 2001, which have not been shown in Stockholm before. DOG will be shown in the main hall and POLIISI in one of the project rooms.

Jury statement

With her monumental video works, Annika Larsson brings the audience into a world of male strategies, attributes and relations. Often these take the form of scenes filled with subtle, erotic signals enhanced with crisp, icy sounds, all captured with refined camera and editing techniques. Annika Larsson is awarded the Beckers prize for the exquisite finish of her works as well as for her ability, with cinematic sequences, to poetically lift the veil on the cynicism and coldness of our time: a world where power and violence often seem to go hand in hand.

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Beckers Art Award was established in 1987 and has since then proven to have a remarkable ability to identify young talents on the brink of a breakthrough in their careers. The winner is awarded a grant, which from this year has been raised from 150,000 to 200,000 SEK, and a solo exhibition that has, since 2001, been arranged and held in collaboration with Färgfabriken.

Jury: Jenny Lindén Urnes, Mårten Castenfors och Magnus Jensner

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