ONE OF Sweden’s most prominent contemporary artists, Ann Sofi Sidén, will deliver a profound reflection on the abandonment of newborn babies for her exhibition at TULCA.
Sidén began her career as a painter but has since branched out into video, film, performance, and sculpture, and her styles and themes do not fit easy categorisation.
The video installation In Passing is an urgent and visually stunning story of a young woman who leaves her newborn baby at a ‘baby hatch’ at a Berlin hospital.
On monitors and projection screens, parallel stories featuring the woman and the child after their separation at the hospital are shown in black-and-white, documentary-feel images, and sequences in cinéma vérité. The six-channel video piece shows the young girl dropping off her baby at the hospital, and follows her on her walk through the side streets of Berlin, simultaneously showing the doctors and nurses taking care of the abandoned baby.
In Passing will be shown in the Fairgreen Building until November 21. Admission is free.
