Memories of Lakes Lost (2024)
In the monumental four-channel film installation, music is the starting point. The film takes us through a series of panoramic sequences of landscapes accompanied by Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1st and 2nd cello suites, in a new interpretation by South African classical guitarist Derek Gripper. It is as if the film follows the music, rather than…
It Will Be (2023)
Amidst his fragmented landscapes, Mats Hjelm beckons us to join him on his journeys to contemplate the intricate experiences of others and the complexities of understanding the world. As time flows through moving images on the screen, we may be reminded of the moments that have passed and that will not return. “When today becomes yesterday, and tomorrow…
Simple Sabotage Field Guide (2021)
“Simple Sabotage Field Guide” is large-scale 4 channel video installation first exhibited at Cecilia Hillström Gallery in 2021…
A Riddle Within a Riddle (2020)
“A Riddle Within a Riddle” is an exhibition project with several single or multi-channel video installations and photographic neon works in Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden.
The Healer (2018)
“The Healer” is a 2-channel double-sided installation and photographic neon works about an mysterious prophecy for the 22nd century…
The Other Shore (2017-2019)
“The Other Shore” is a 4-channel double-sided installation whose main character is the Atlantic Ocean, and its histories…
Who The Fool (2015)
“Who The Fool” is an exhibition about the ebola epidemic in West Africa with video installations and a neon artwork…
Molecular Monologue (2014)
“Molecular monologue” is a multi-channel sound installation in a Zen monastery. A female voice speaks the opening paragraph of a novel in several languages…
Where one is the other must be (2014)
Where one is the Other must be is a neon installation in Uppsala Cathedral in Sweden. It represents different interpretations of the holy eucharist…
Taste of Salt (2013)
Taste of Salt is an exhibition about the poetics of the Atlantic middle passage consisting of a video installation, one film, photography, and a musical piece…
Men at Work (2009)
This exhibition is the result of the artist’s trip to Mali for a screening of the documentary film Black Nation. With the recurrent theme of the conditions of manhood and empowerment in mind, Hjelm sets out to calmly portray everyday life on the streets of Bamako where daily activities unfold at the wake of a transforming society…
Black Madonna Series (2006-2009)
The Black Madonna Series is a series of installations that follow suit to political themes initiated in the Trilogy. Here, the series of video installations take the history and the rituals of the Pan-African Orthodox Church as a point of departure for a renewed discussion on the human condition and means of empowerment…
Deliverance (2005)
Deliverance is a poetic and melancholic journey through recent history, memory, the human capacity for faith and the need for reconciliation. It alludes to manipulations and catastrophes but also to reedom of expression and liberation. It is a reflection on…
Light upon Light (2003)
Light upon Light explores the new monotheistic rhetorics of contemporary global conflicts and brings in the rhetorics of non-territorial warfare…
The Trilogy (1997-2003)
White Flight (1997), Man to Man (2000) and Kap Atlantis (2003) are large-scale video installations that combine historical black-and-white documentary historical material with newly filmed color footage by the artist. All three works result in an incisive preoccupation with the question as to how the past continues to affect the present, or if it is lost forever…