John Skoog
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The film’s title, translated from Swedish as ‘late on earth’, is taken from a collection of poems by acclaimed Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. This beautifully fragmented collection of surrealist writings were written during the poet’s extremely isolated circumstances whilst in Paris during from the 1930s. During this period the poet was
a cultural outsider and his innovative use of language was initially met with little understanding. However his writing has since come to be regarded as one of the most groundbreaking works of the Swedish literature.
Sent på Jorden is filmed entirely at dusk, late in the summer when preparations take place for the long Scandinavian winter. The work presents a transition stage, a series of fragments, when notions of the past and futures collide.
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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)
Taming the Narrative, Basis, Frankfurt am Main, 1 November 2013 – 8 January 2014 (group)
Sent på Jorden, Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta, 26 January – 3 March 2013 (two-person)
Sent på Jorden and Förår, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, 22 November 2012 – 8 February 2013 (solo)
Screenings:
FOCUS: John Skoog, Lago Film Fest X+1, Revine Lago, 24 July – 1 August 2015
+ Screening, Art center Ongoing, Tokyo & Doshisha University Clover Hall, Kyoto, 18 October 2014
Ein abend mit… Sent på Jorden, Ve.sch, Wien, 18 February 2014
The Giant Corpse Flower Bloom, Microclima Venezia, Venice, 22 June 2013
The Idea of North, Video_Dumbo, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, 16 – 25 May 2013
Den Rörliga Bildens Konst, Screening-tour på bibliotek i Skåne, Kristianstads Konsthall, 24 Oct – 6 December 2012
Rencontres Internationales: Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 3 – 8 July 2012
International Competition, Indielisboa Lissabon International Film Festival, 26 April – 6 May 2012
Rencontres Internationales: Madrid, Filmoteca Española, Madrid, 23 – 26 May 2012
Rencontres Internationales: Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 30 November – 8 December 2011
Onde/Waves, Torino International Film Festival, Turin, 25 November – 3 December 2011
Message to Man, St Petersburg International Film Festival, St Petersburg, 25 November – 2 December 2011
Zinebi 53, Bilbao International Festival of documentary and short films, Bilbao, 13 – 20 November 2011
Startsladden (best Swedish short), Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg, 3 – 6 February 2011