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Charlotte Gyllenhammar

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Charlotte Gyllenhammar

(Born 1963, works in Stockholm)

Vertigo, 2002

Concrete, steel, glass, wood, etc.

11 x 4,5 x 3,5 x 2,5 m

With support from Konstnärsnämnden, NCC

Charlotte Gyllenhammar’s oeuvre displays her interest in isolation and the creative process. She has depicted her studio in photographs and on film, and she has recreated her own studio within that of artist Carl Milles (1875–1955) in Stockholm. This artwork is a copy of the attic studio she had at the time in Stockholm, recreated upside-down. The artist highlights the studio’s complexity, isolation, and closeness, and wrote on an early sketch of the work: “The only sight is insight.” The English title, Vertigo, is also the title of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film from 1958 in which the main character loses his footing and panics because of a fear of heights. The upside-down perspective is a motif that Gyllenhammar employs in multiple works, and with Vertigo, Gyllenhammar turns the entire environment around according to her own logic, but a glance in the mirror is enough for the floor and ceiling to again switch places.