Primary Medium

Installation

Address

276 Greenpoint Ave
Brooklyn Art Studios – bldg 8, FL 1, #8104
Brooklyn, 11222

Artist Statement

Johanna Heldebro is a multidisciplinary artist whose work often turns to everyday imagery, monotonous routines and testing the boundaries of the socially accepted. Her current work-in-progress "Poetry has little or no effect on me" draws on text from a postpartum depression study she participated in following the births of her children. The work revolves around a series of large-scale flags: borrowing the visual language of signal flags historically used to call for help, and of political flags used to declare public affiliation or allegiance; incorporating phrases that are hyper-personal, even clinical in their intimacy, made monumental and displayed in a form that is inherently public and declarative. Johanna holds an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts (NYC), where she was the recipient of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for her thesis work, To Come Within Reach of You… Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and North America, including at MOMENTUM 8: Tunnel Vision – the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russia), Galleri Box (Sweden), Gallery Steinsland Berliner (Sweden), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Canada), Launch F18 (NYC), and side effects gallery (Brooklyn).

Links

Website: http://www.johannaheldebro.com