Lisen Stibeck
Undertow (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Undertow explores my world of dreams, memory, alternate realities, and parallel lives.
These pictures were born somewhere beyond the reach of my conscious self; images that
I have then attempted to translate into photography,
Under the surface of every life lies a multitude of unlived possibilities. Dreams and
memories come together to form some of these unlived lives, allowing us a glimpse of
what could have been. Do these imagined lives somehow shape our actual reality?
Do the images we form in the unexplored corners of our minds influence us more than
we think, or is it the other way around – that we shape and remold our memories and
dreams to make life richer, safer, or just easier to make sense of?
I’ve experienced both sadness and joy. I lost my father
at a young age, and then lost a child at birth. These losses have, of course, shaped my
sense of self, as well as of my non-existing self – I would be a different person from the
one I am now had those two remained in my life.
These images are made with collodion process and old expired polaroid film using large format camera.
AUTHOR
Lisen Stibeck is a Swedish fine art photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally and explores identity, memory and the psychological landscape through long-term, concept-driven projects.
Her photobook Daughters, examining teenage identity and the fragile threshold between childhood and adulthood, received international recognition and awards, establishing her as a distinctive voice within contemporary fine art photography.
Stibeck’s work has been exhibited at Fotografiska (Stockholm), National Museum of Iceland, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Oaxaca, Mexico), and Dimbola Museum & Galleries (UK), among other international venues.
In her recent series A Quiet Distance, she refines her visual language into a distilled and poetic expression, exploring the subtle tension between presence and absence. Moving between portraiture and landscape, her atmospheric images evoke vulnerability, transformation and states of becoming.
Based in Sweden, Stibeck also works in Morocco and France.
Selected awards, exhibitions and publications:
https://www.lisenstibeckphoto.com
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