True Fiction

“True Fiction” photograph and Video Art Exhibition by Swedish artists Lennart Alves and Marit Lindberg
An exhibition by two contemporary Swedish artists, Lennart Alves and Marit Lindberg.

Lennart Alves works mainly with photography and film. His work deals mostly with subjects related to sight and perception, and how it forms our values. He often uses landscape as motif to obtain a less culturally defined imagery.

Marit Lindberg works primarily with video as a medium. During the last few years her works have been based around narrative structures, collective memories, individual stories that together form a narrative, language and gaps appearing in translation processes. She is interested in the process of mythologizing as it emerges when a story is retold enough times.

Lennart Alves will present a series of black photographs called The American Heritage. The project is both a tribute to Ad Reinhardt and a personal reaction to the global political reality of today.

Marit Lindberg will show a series of three short videos on language, which strive to reflect some of the delight and frustration found in trying to communicate with your neighbour – Vampire and Skeleton, A lesson in Finnish grammar and Practical Chinese. She will also show the documentary Flamenco in Taipei that takes up issues concerning dreams of a different life and the exotic regard for far away places.

The exhibition will open on Nov 30th.

From the Polar to the Valley

From the Polar to the Valley — the Swedish Sami /the Chinese Li Su exchange project
Yunnan has 25 minorities and each of them has kept their own culture very well. The Li Su is a minority living in beautiful Nujiang Valley.
The Sami is the indigenous people of Sweden. Known earlier as the Lapps, they are an ethnic minority with their own culture. Among other things, the Sami have their own language and their own traditions in handicrafts and music.

During year 2005-2006 TCG Nordica started to plan and prepare a project which involves a group of (young) people representing the Sami minority and one group representing the Li Su minority from Yunnan Province. As a first step in 2005, we invited a group of Li Su people to visit both Sweden and Norway. As a second part of exchange the Sami would come to visit China. Two minorities will have chance to live together in Nujiang Valley and Kunming city as well. The plan is also to put up an exhibition at TC/G Nordica with photos and different kind of information about the Sami minority and the Li Su minority. Of cause, you would get chance to listen to the indigenous singing- Yoik from the Sami group!

The exhibition will open on Nov 11th

Name list of participants artists

The Sami group
Mahtte Sikku Tragardh
Alexander Linder
Carola Grahn

The Li Su group
Feng Zhan Hai (a de)
Ci Li Hai
Geng Lu Heng