Josefin Arnell’s work has largely not been shown in Sweden. With the exhibition CRYBABY, Index presents a body of work that has been growing over a number of years, developing through the assumption of real life as a stage and the possibility for cinematic experimentation. Jumping between genres, Josefin Arnell finds ways to question the relationship with the viewer, while embracing provocation, moral questions, and through filmic characters whose backgrounds transgress the norm. In her films, Josefin Arnell depicts relations of power and control, vividly interweaving the real with the unreal and sharpening the edges of both.

Mixing reality – sometimes casting non-actors, shooting without rehearsing or closely following the scripts – with a visceral and obviously fake gore that is somehow bloodier than the hyperslick special effects of contemporary blockbusters, Josefin Arnell creates a camp comic horror, where laughter rings with an uneasy echo, and leaves behind a lingering introspection and curiosity about what is collectively witnessed and created, on both sides of Arnell’s camera.

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