LIBIDO- chains, gender, feelings and love
LIBIDO- chains, gender, feelings and love
Jewellery - Jenny Edlund
Foto - Morgan Norman
Exhibition runs until February 2, 2008
PLATINA, Odengatan 68 in Stockholm
The exhibition is the result of one years work with the female body and identity in focus.
The theme is chains where Jenny Edlund has created handmade chains and used prefabricated ones in big collars and bracelets. The exhibition also includes photos by the photographer Morgan Norman with Jenny herself as model.
Together the jewelleries and the photos make a unit, where the issue is the position of the female body, in society, in artwork and the rules that surrounds a female body.
Libido is a work about jewellery as tactile, sensual artefact and a work about the female being and sexuality that reaches into the political and feministic discussion about the gender power order. Jenny Edlund claims that the jewellery that is in contact with the skin has a very high erotic potential, and in the exhibition Libido has developed from the crossroad of her artwork and life.
The exhibition reminds us that it is the body we live in and act through.
Jenny Edlund (born 1959) lives and works in Stockholm. Educated at Konstfack, and represented at Röhlsska museet, Gothenburg and MAD, Museum of Art & Design in New York
