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John Skoog, Reduit (Redoubt), 2014

John Skoog

Reduit (Redoubt), 2014
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Set in the flat farmlands of south Sweden, Reduit (Redoubt) present a portrait of local farm-worker Karl-Göran Persson through the decaying residues of his legacy. In the early 1940s Persson,...
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Set in the flat farmlands of south Sweden, Reduit (Redoubt) present a portrait of local farm-worker Karl-Göran Persson through the decaying residues of his legacy. In the early 1940s Persson, fearing a cold-war Russian invasion into Sweden, sought to turn his family home into a garrison where he and the people in the village could find refuge. Persson reinforced the building, once a traditional Swedish farmhouse, with an array of discarded metal. His fixation on constructing the fortress became his life work – he lived alone in the house and continued its reconstruction until his death in 1975. It now stands as a massive concrete slab in the middle of a field, a half- ruin weathered by neglect. Fragments of various stories about Persson and the fortress, collected by Skoog, are re-told as the camera circles the fortress, “scanning” its exterior walls in one continuous tracking shot.
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Exhibitions

Exhibitions:
Mixtape 2016, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, 22 February – 11 March 2016 (group)
Värn, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, 26 June – 27 September 2015 (solo)
Slow Return
, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 28 March – 31 May 2015 (solo)
Cold War, Hot Peace, Slought, Philadelphia, 26 February – 12 April 2015 (group)
Real DMZ Project 2014, Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do & Artsonje Center, Seoul, 30 August – 28 September 2014 (group)

Statements, Art Basel, Basel, 11 June – 18 June 2014 (solo)
Tahi Moore, John Skoog, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, 21 October – 15 November 2014 (two-person)
Ars Viva 2014/13 Truth/Reality, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, 8 February – 6 April 2014 (group)
Redoubt, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 25 January – 6 April 2014 (solo)

Screenings:
Busan International Short Film Festival, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, 23 – 26 April 2016
Les Recontres Internationales: Berlin
, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 17 March 2016
Les Recontres Internationales: Paris
, Gaîté lyrique, Paris, 16 January 2016
National Competition, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, 19 – 25 October 2015
Ann Arbor Film Festival Presents, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, Brooklyn, 26 September 2015
International Competition, Frontiera - International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Goiânia, 20 – 29 August 2015
FOCUS: John Skoog, Lago Film Fest X+1, Revine Lago, 24 July – 1 August 2015
International Competition, 53rd Ann Arbor International Film Festival, Ann Arbor, 24 – 29 March 2015
International Competition, Tempo Documentary Film Festival, Stockholm, 2 – 8 March 2015
Film Program & Finissage L A N D, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 25 January 2015
Startsladden, Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg, 23 January – 2 February 2015
New Vision Competition, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, 6 – 16 November 2014

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