Lina Selander is known for her visually intense and multi-layered work in the field of moving image. At Marabouparken konsthall, she brings together twelve new films created between 2023 and 2025, most of which are being shown for the first time.

Political conflicts, violence, and destruction are central themes, notably the presence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, particularly in two works where she captured images from social media feeds using an analogue camera.

Lina Selander blends her own footage with film fragments and stills from various sources. She processes the images to enhance their materiality and give them "body." In producing her new works, she deliberately used older and defective recording and editing machines, seeking out the damaged and incomplete.

A fundamental concept is that both bodies and images break down. This is reflected in the installation where different film works interact as a whole, and transparent screens create visual duplications and connections. It is an exhibition that "bleeds," both literally and metaphorically.

Reflections on contemporary events are interwoven with a wide range of cultural-historical and media-technological references. For instance, she highlights how the word "film" is derived from the Old English word for membrane, "filmen," connecting it to the "scales" mentioned in the New Testament: "Then it was as if scales had fallen from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again" (Acts 9:18).

The relationship between technology and sight is a question Selander constantly revisits. However, what truly defines her work is not the subject matter, but her handling of the material. Her works intentionally operate below the surface of the supposedly non-material, perfect, and rapidly flowing images that surround us.

From the broken machine emerges an image where the gaze no longer glides over a smooth surface, but instead opens up a space for the human and the bodily, thus lending agency to the broken. In the scratches and gaps, the gaze and thought can take hold.

Selander emphasizes: "For me, the work in the studio is about re-establishing purely physical connections to the technological and cultural systems that shape our lives."