Experiencing Interruptions?

Room Study (Body)

Based on a true story of a murder case solved by psychic abilities, Room Study (Body) presents still images from a peculiar angle of a room, as if the camera (or somebody) is laying on the floor. A voice speaks to us, through the subtitles in the video, describing their own murder.

* Room Study (Body) was originally shown as a video installation as part of the exhibition — We Have A Visitor, http://www.victoriaskogsberg.com/wehaveavisitor_instal.html

* Please click on Vimeo link for HD quality.

  • Victoria Skogsberg
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Other
  • Genres:
    Art, Art installation
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 18, 2013
  • Shooting Format:
    HD Video
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • In the presence of film
    The Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm
    November 27, 2013
  • - We Have A Visitor
    Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
    February 21, 2013
Director Biography - Victoria Skogsberg

Victoria Skogsberg (b.1977) is an artist based in Stockholm (SWE). She received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Environmental Art) from Glasgow School of Art in 2003 and a MA in Fine Art at The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, in 2013. Skogsberg’s work has been shown both in Sweden and internationally, most recently in London (UK), Auckland (NZL), Bergen (NOR) and Athens (GRC).

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Director Statement

My art practice is based around an interest in existential, spiritual and psychical experiences, in relation to atmosphere, spatiality and the psychology of space. My particularly interest is in the notion of ‘the empty room’, absence and presence and the possibility of rooms and interiors somehow communicating feelings and ideas to us.

Through experimenting with materials from ‘captured’ experiences of spaces, moods, extraordinary events and scientific studies, I develop atmospheric, investigatory video and installation works based on the interaction between the physical room and its interiority, the constructed installation, the moving image and the human psyche of the visitor.