Marianne Lindberg De Geer, I am Thinking About Myself – Wanås 2003, 2003. Photo Anders Norrsell.
MARIANNE LINDBERG DE GEER
Marianne Lindberg De Geer
(Born 1946, works in Stockholm)
I am Thinking About Myself – Wanås 2003, 2003
Audio file, loudspeakers
The calls for Mommy and Daddy in Marianne Lindberg De Geer’s sound installation I am Thinking About Myself – Wanås 2003, confuse, scare, and disturb us. “An installation about the impossibility of being a child,” says the artist of her work. Parenthood and the mutually strong bonds between parents and children are central to her oeuvre. Lindberg De Geer had her artistic debut when she was 40 years old, and with her starting point in the mundane, she examines the family, the art world, and other social contexts. Several of her works bear the title I am Thinking About Myself, which also appears as a title of exhibitions, a theater production, and a book. One of her more well-known sculptures with the same title portrays two bodies, one overweight and one anorexic, standing facing each other. Both bodies feature the face of Lindberg De Geer. Like a paper doll, she tries on different identities and thereby investigates herself, relationships, power, and ideals.
