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We play, I push, You hold, We fall 

2023 Video,  7:24 min, loop, 2023


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Dokumentation from exhibition at Konsthall 16

The new work created by Larsson Jacobson for Konsthall 16, We play, I push, You hold, We fall, is based on a scrips of movements and feelings, 
according to wich she directed the participants, resulting in a kind of filmed and editeng performance. Revisiting themes she has processed previously, she introduces them to a new setting. 
The walls of the exhibition space are draped in shiny turquoise textile and the floor covered in turquoise carpeting, and in front of the back wall a film is projected on a huge screen. This time, the only scene is a dimly-lit indoor swimming pool, where three women dancers interact. The scenario is ambiguous. We accompany the characters above and below the water surface in seemingly improvised actions that oscillate between quiet friendship, lively games and animated wrestling where the line between play and unpleasant seriousness is blurred. 
The suggestive soundtrack, specially composed.  by Mira Eklund, changes according to whether we experience the film to be above or below the surface. underwater, sound are muffled, and vague whale-like noises enhance the mood, which is shattered when “we” come up for air. The speed also enhances the sensation of moving through water, as movements are slower below the surface. 
Various devices are used to evoke the dual nature of water as aplace of play but also a danger. 

Early on, the three characters throw themselves into the pool. Submerged, arms and legs entwine in a chaos of bubbles. Both the body compositions and their clothing occasionally suggest the “wet drapery” of classical Greek sculptures. Gentle movements are followed by balancing and playing with floating sculptures made by the artist. The colour combinations used in these sculptures- red and white ore yellow and black, the same as in warning signs- send a slightly disturbing message. Almost imperceptibly, a line is crossed, and the initial friendly playfulness turns into something more akin to a fight. Feelings run high, and the young women´s interaction fluctuates between friendship and antagonism. Although the serene ending is open to interpretation, the line markings of the pool in the background seem to form an ominous black cross. 

Text: Ulrika Levén, curator at Konsthall 16

We dive, We float, We sink, We sing,  We turn upwards

2023 Documentation from performance  
At  Selma City Spa,  part of Stockholm Art Week program 2024


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Alexandra Larsson Jacobon: choreography, floating sculpturers
Mira  Eklund : composed sound and music, performd music live at the performance.
Konstsim Kreative:  Claudia Arasa, Lovisa Börthas, Samantha Hainer, Fiammetta Leuzzi, Natalie Mercier. Phuong Thi.
Photo:Simon Blanck

Över, under och allt omkring

  
Documentation from solo exhibition at Haninge konsthall, 2023  

Material: Mirror dance floor, textile, acrylic spray paint, cell plastic balls
Interactive installation was build on exploring play, imagination and care


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Dokumentation of performance at Haninge Konsthall, 2024
Choreography Sanna Söderlund
Performers Sanna Söderlund and Lisa Reader


Harder, Softer, Slower, Stronger

2020 Documentation from solo exhibition at gallery Konstfack

Mixed media 
Video, 08:39 min, loop. 2020
Music: Mira Eklund


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Blob, C-print, 2020 
Holding, C-print, 2020
We hug, You hug too hard, I resist, You push, I leave, C-print, 2020
Glitter drapes, C-print. 2020


Live streemd performance, 2020

In a flat in Stockholm Sunday evening, A mother and her daughter interacts with each other in a playful balance between control and care, in the restaged apartment musician Mira Eklund will play a live set inspired by their actions. While our reality was abruptly and radically changed in the face of CoVid-19 and social as well our relationship to our homes, we found our self confined to our family relations and to our own self’s. In Harder, Faster, Slower, Stronger the apartment and the performers will play with the balance of this intimacy and how they react to each other.


Art-sensation cube

2023 Stills from online  exhibition
HD video, digital installation
08:39 min, loop. 2020


Music: Mira Eklund
Curator: Susanne Fessé
Digital exhibition installation: Untold Garden

 The video work is presented in a 3D environment that can be likened to a cave, a parallel reality, an inner world, which can only be accessed by the viewer at great magnification. The viewer, like Alice in Wonderland, follows the sound to descend into a shape, placed in a black cube. A room of its own, a cave where no one sees and no one hears what is happening between two people. The video work Harder, Softer, Slower, Stronger (2020) can be seen as reflecting the grey area in which love, tenderness, physical closeness, and violence exist side by side. Alexandra Larsson Jacobson’s work raises questions both about and how different stages of a relationship can manifest and the ways in which boundaries rapidly shift without us being aware of a presumptive shift in power. Is it play or seriousness we’re seeing?  

https://www.artsensation.org

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Odenplan

2020 Odenplan konstväxlingar

Documentation from exhibition at Odenplan metro station Stockholm. 2020-2021
Video, metal foil, acrylic spray paint 


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