Nygårds Karin Bengtsson
Boy in Bedroom, 2007. C-print, 123 cm by 135 cm.
Nygårds Karin Bengtsson (b. 1972) lives and works in Sweden. Her staged photographs are mostly characterized by a lonely person in a room or a landscape. In a carefully framed pictorial space, her mise-en-scène often conceals references to paintings from the last century. Her work revolves around memory and melancholy. The stories already told. Nygårds Karin Bengtsson holds an M.F.A. from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland (2003). Her work is represented in the collections of Malmö Art Museum and The National Public Art Council, Sweden. nygardskarinbengtsson.com
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