Miriam Bäckström b. 1967
Born in 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
The work of Miriam Bäckström is driven by an intense study of the symbiotic and oscillatory relationship between image and reality in the human psyche. Bäckström works across various media, including photography, theatre, installation, performance, film and written text. Her early work as a conceptual photographer involved technically precise depictions of interior spaces - such as apartments and museum galleries-where the human figure was eerily absent yet the human presence uncannily palpable, like stage-sets in search of their characters.
While maintaining a technically meticulous execution, Bäckström's work with moving images has tended toward theatre and the theatrical - such as dramas, films and videos and collaborative performances - in which she often blurs the line between documentary and non-documentary narrative constructs. Bäckström utilizes but at the same time undermines the conventions of story-telling and art-exhibiting, reversing the roles between author and subject, audience and performer, public and private, fact and fiction, in order to investigate the subtle web of connections linking identity, memory and reality.
In the most recent and ongoing work of Miriam Bäckström, a new image representation is being developed and presented throughout a series of tapestries and tapestry based sculptures. The photographic perception is pushed to a point where definitions and distinctions between media, image, material and surface becomes uncertain and insufficient. The series New Enter Image takes place at the boundary of photography, textile, architecture and landscape, and suggests a collapse of image and perception
-
One work by each artist
16 Nov - 7 Dec 2019One work by each gallery artist, exhibition curated by intern Märta Öringe for gallery weekend Stockholm 16-17th of November. Exhibition runs until the 7th of December Beth Laurin Bigert &...Read more -
BIOTOP
22 - 26 Mar 2017Group exhibition during Stockholm Art Week at Biologiska museet . A collaboration between Belenius, Elastic Gallery , Stockholms Auktionsverk , Stockholm Art Week and partnership with Artworks . Free entrance...Read more -
STⒶTE OF BEING
23 Apr - 17 May 2015A group exhibition consisting of works by twelve artists read from a perspective of how the existance of the state influences the behaviour of the individual. The artists have all...Read more -
MARKET Art Fair, Stockholm
17 - 19 Apr 2015Miriam Bäckström Leif Elggren Ilja Karilampi Bigert & Bergström Mads Aaroe Willem AnderssonRead more -
The Armory Show, NY
Leif Elggren, Miriam Bäckström 8 - 11 Mar 2012Leif Elggren, is a Swedish artist born 1950, who lives and works in Stockholm and New York. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most...Read more -
Market Art Fair, Stockholm
23 - 26 Feb 2012Bigert & bergström John Duncan Carl Palm Miriam Bäckström Aids-3D (Keller & Kosmas) Carl Michael von HausswolffRead more -
Artissima, Turin
3 - 6 Nov 2011Willem Andersson Emanuele Becheri Miriam Bäckström John Duncan Johanna Gustafsson Fürst Johan Strandahl Aids-3D (Kosmas & Keller)Read more -
Mirrors
Miriam Bäckström 1 - 25 Oct 2009They all carry with them a personal drama to which they invite each other, with great pleasure or violence. They do as characters should; they respond accurately to the images...Read more