Jenny Källman - Surveillance

Young people portrayed alone or in small groups, often seemingly unaware of the eye of the camera, or ignoring it. The images appear to deal with the inconspicuous moments of everyday social interactions. Still, despite the lack of action and the evasive motifs there is dramatic framing in the works, sometimes with dark shadows, unfocused lenses, slightly slanting angles. As if the images capture the very moment before something is about to happen. They seem to be re-enacted scenes from a film—or a combination of different movie memories—and the viewer is enticed, or even bound, to create a story to go along with the images.

Jenny Källman combines the unsentimental with the sensitive, the poetic with the everyday, in captivating images that roam the borderland between the staged and the documentary. There is neither chance element nor truth claim here. The series of images could also be read as a photo-roman, or documentary fiction, including social rituals, unseen events, and authentic gestures, holding the joy of friendship and shared experiences, but also anxiety and the deepest sense of solitude.

Jenny Källmans bilder rör sig i gränslandet mellan det iscensatta och det dokumentära och ett övergripande tema är övergången mellan barndom och vuxenvärld och hur leken som borttappat begrepp går över i gränslösa och farofyllda utmaningar.