Susanna Hesselberg was born in 1967 in Uppsala. She lives and works in Malmo, Sweden. She’s an “established international artist”. She’s represented in Paris, Copenhagen and Malmo. Hesselberg has had shows at The School Gallery, Paris (2008). Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen (2007). Centre Culture Suedois, Paris (2005 & 2004). Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre & Tensta Konsthall (2009).
Most of Hesselberg’s work is in photography, though in 2015 at Sculpture by the Sea in Aarhus, Denmark, she installed a piece titled “When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down”. The artwork references the lyrics from World Without End by Laurie Anderson. For me this piece is deeply moving; it feels like a physical manifestation of grief and mourning. I can feel this sense of losing something immense and irreplaceable in the illusion that the library is never-ending. Losing someone in any sense is hard and it can feel like you’ve lost entire worlds worth of things. Things they like, things they know, stories they tell, jokes they remember. This is such an accurate and moving depiction of grief and loss. The link for her website is marked as “could be hacked” and is not functioning.
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