Anneè Olofsson

Born in 1966 in Hasselholm (Sweden), she lives and works in Stockholm.

The series God Bless the Absentees (2000), presented for the first time in France, shows characters who bury themselves in the furniture or in the ground, merging with their suffocating and crushing surroundings. I have an incredible fear of death, "confides Anneé Olofsson. I can panic completely, sink into total despair at the thought of dying. It's something very deep inside me." The large photographs, with their shimmering colour and material effects, slide from the real into the unreal, making everyday things look bizarre.