ARTIST STATEMENT

I believe in people. I believe we are complex beings with individual collections of societal filters accumulated from structures and norms. As we go about with our lives and experience the world, some of these filters will grow into prejudice, causing conscious or unconscious barriers of separation. Through my own journey of unlearning, I know that fear and pain can be transformed instead of being transmitted. My response to our collected filters, is to create installations/stages that speaks to the simplicity of being human, to gather around food and have a moment to just be an authentic self. By working with everyday situations, exploring traditions, costumes, habitual patterns, these installations are invitations for self-reflection, to provoke awareness about how we interact with ourselves, with others and with our context.

frida Foberg

She/Her

Frida Foberg is a Swedish community-oriented artist and architect based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MA in Architecture from Aarhus School of Architecture. Her work unfolds the space that floats between individuals, their habits, cultures and conditions. By working with spatial elements encouraging interaction and reflection, she poses questions that explore the notion of self and others.

Her work has been exhibited in the Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), Liljevalchs (Stockholm, Sweden), Arko Art Museum (Seoul, South Korea) Wilmer Jennings Gallery (NYC), The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, NY), Turn Park Art Space (West Stockbridge, MA), Base 31 (Picton, Canada), Albany Center Gallery (Albany, NY), Opalka Gallery (Albany, NY) and Arts Letters & Numbers (Averill Park, NY).

Frida has worked for the artist Vito Acconci, the architect firm VAMOS Architects in Brooklyn, Fantastic Norway in Oslo and the Wright-Ingraham Institute. She has served as the associate director of the non profit arts and education organization Arts Letters & Numbers. During her years at Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park NY, she worked with UNICEF, China Academy of Fine Art, Cooper Union, Big Picture Learning, Art Council Korea, Education Reimagined, Iowa State University, Siena College, Opalka Gallery, National Coalition Building Institute, AHS Theater Ensemble and Youth fx, to develop interdisciplinary programs, creating a platform to rethink and expand the field of architecture, education and social awareness. She currently serves on their Advisory Council.