The C3A presents Donde esté ella (Where She Is At), 2001, by artist Johanna Billing (Jönköping, Sweden, 1973), a single channel video work (duration 7' 35'') that delves in the notions of modernism and decadence. It was shot over the summer of 2001 in Ingierstrand Bath, an outdoors leisure center designed by Ole Lind Schistad and Eyvind Mostue in 1934, and one of the few remaining examples of modernist architecture in Oslo.

Johanna Billing  (lives and works in Stockholm) has been making video works since 1999 that weave together music, movement and rhythm. Merging the production modes of collective live events and workshops with a cinematic language, Billing in part directs the participants and in part activates a series of improvisations around the notion of performance and the possibility it holds to explore issues of the public and the private as well as the individual in the society as a whole. Billing often addresses political climates and cultural specificities, but more importantly she transforms, through a documentary method, her filmmaking in a fictive space to examine actual and contrived events and how that filmed compression illuminates their overlap. Billing¿s films often involve music, which in her hands becomes a tool for communication, memory and reconstruction.

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