Biography

Christina Hallström was born and grew up in Sweden but lives and works in Amsterdam, where she graduated in graphic design and visual communication from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1998. 
Her work is involved with image making and video, film, photography and print. 
Gradually, her work has developed towards inter disciplinary projects involving music, dance and visual art. She has worked with several choreographers fully integrating the video in the performance by using set sequences but also by experimenting with live video and multiple projections. This experience in live layering is further developed within printmaking on fabric.

Exhibition 

Hill
The work tries to capture a moment of twilight in Addis Ababa. It was in the beginning of the evening and people were walking over the hill just outside the gate of the Hager Fekir Theatre. All kinds of people: young, old, men, women, children, singles, couples etc. 

All moving at such a mellow pace. People were meeting each other and exchanging words, handshakes and kisses. It was a perfect flow of appearing and disappearing, arrival and departure, over the hill and I could have stood there forever just breathing and watching the silhouettes, moving in and out of each other, feeling totally connected to this stream of life, here and now.

I tried to translate this video sequence into print, and make a multi-interpretable image where the eye can wonder in all directions, and zoom in and out in a sort of reversed or ‘slow’ filmmaking.

My research had a lot to do with transparency and grain. The ‘film-strips’ are screenprinted on thin JiangSu silk fabric which hang free from the ceiling in an arranged group. Due to the fabrics’ transparency the images can be seen from both sides. The ink in combination with the silk builds up its own grain. The fabrics will slightly be moved by the air and are therefore never static. This aspect also underlines the viewer’s direct and physical relation to the work, by moving around the group of film-strips, one can layer the images him- or herself. From each side the viewer will see different combinations and image-overlaps.

There is also a reference to the contact-sheets from black and white photography where the eye could wonder from one image to the other, focusing on a single one or overviewing the whole film.

Poster Presentation

Boundless Amsterdam 
The visual arts and crafts are influenced by new technological developments. Cross-fertilization between traditional printmaking techniques and 3D printing, laser cutting, digital photography or unusual materials like ceramics create surprising, new results. 
Presentation of the Boundless Project Amsterdam.