Annika Larsson: Annika Larsson's Bodies Politic

Mostafa Heddaya, Hyperallergic, September 19, 2014
ROME — In Annika Larsson’s Introduction at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), the recent political unrest in Europe is cast between the historical and the personal, with two video works accompanying a vast arrangement of printed matter. Inside the cavernous gallery, the exhibition, curated by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini in collaboration with the German Academy of Villa Massimo (where the artist is in residence), folds headlines and footage of looting and riots in with found pictures and internet clips, a potent mixture that veers from public chaos to private fetish.