Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

"The work In Pictures is a playful investigation of how images and texts can be perceived and read. Over a two month period Bengtsson sent in submissions to the Guardian Weekend Magazine’s picture of the week competition, until she eventually won. By framing the magazine pages and email notifications of her unsuccessful submissions and declaring them an artwork, Bengtsson opens up a critical dialogue between what is considered to be ‘amateur photography’ and ‘art photography’. Kristina Bengtsson is a Swedish artist working and living in Copenhagen. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. Her practice is centred around a contemporary understanding of the mythogenic power of images, with a particular interest in the viewers’ role in its creation. She mainly works with photography, sculpture and text. Her aim is to work un-categorically, to mix genres and styles to allow the work to question assumptions as to the nature and meaning of objects and events. And to point out, that things are seldom carved in stone."