Lina Selander's Exhibition Explores History Through Repetition and Re-editing of Film Works

At the Venice Biennale, Sweden's Lina Selander presents a collection of short films, photographs, and installations that delve into the roles of film and photography in documenting history. Notable pieces include 'Silphium' (2014), a collaboration with Oscar Mangione inspired by an extinct plant, and 'Model of Continuation' (2013), which employs a film-within-a-film format. Featured in 'Open System – Working Archive' (2015) are 'To the Vision Machine' (2013), a silphium coin, and images from 'Anteroom of the Real' (2011). The exhibition highlights themes of repetition, re-editing, and temporal distortion, drawing from Chris Marker's 'La Jetée' (1962). Selander's works, previously exhibited at Kunsthall Trondheim in 2014, received coverage in ArtReview's May 2015 edition.