Event

GUSTAF BROMS

Where is Here?
Dir. Gustaf Broms, Sweden, 2009
Sweden 42 mins.

Mahapralaya
Dir. Gustaf Broms, Sweden, 2015
Sweden 22 mins

Swedish artist Gustaf Broms has, since the early 1990s, developed a symbolic language in order to help him understand his own being. On an adventurous journey stretching over photography, filmmaking, sculpting, collaging, music making and on to performance art, his artworks and the process become pieces of a puzzle that constitute not only the human being called Gustaf Broms but also human life itself in general. The grand scale of Broms ambitions signals a willingness to share his highly experimental attitude and its findings with other people. Thus his persona as an artist grows into something more ambitious, yet at the same time more undefined. The multifaceted expressions of his work seem to contain the very same theme, the very same question: where exactly lies self in the human being? Who exactly are we and which tools do we need to find out?

Broms films Where is Here? and Mahapralaya describe the human condition in a most poetic and mind-expanding way. Are we taking part of a dream-state? An ultimate reality? Broms rich cinematic textures facilitate an extended in-depth journey. Where it ends, no-one knows. But the journey itself is cosmic, colourful and ecstatically exploratory. It will lead you far, far away from where you left off. And you will be grateful for the experience.