1000 Villages program: Details From the Future, with Joanna Lombard

Joanna Lombard will screen her Details From the Future (2007), a video work composed with film sequences appropriated from Costa-Gavras 1969 film Z. The film was shot in Algeria over the course of several years about that country’s liberation in 1962. Central to it are scenes of mob violence against an unspecified left-wing politician. In 2006, Lombard learned that both her mother and her aunt—both of whom lived in Algeria at the time—played as extras in Z’s mob scenes. Lombard’s video searches through the film footage for glimpses of her family while the voice over recounts anecdotes about her mother’s life. Details From the Future provides a point of departure for a performative lecture delving deeper into the correlations between Lombard’s personal history and the broader political currents that loosely tie Algeria and Sweden together in the mid-20th Century.

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Joanna Lombard is an artist born in Algeria in 1972. She lives and works in Stockholm, but grew up in the 1970s in Ljusbacken in Hälsingland. She works with film, photography, installation, sound and text to deal with issues of identity, origin and exclusion. Lombard holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and participated in The Photographic Artist’s Book: Dissemination in a Digital Landscape Postmaster program there as well. Her work was included in Children of the Children of the Revolution, Färgfabriken, Sweden. Momentum 8 – Tunnel Vision! Norway. Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, The 8th Seoul Art Biennial, South Korea. Samhället utan egenskaper, Tensta konsthall, Sweden.

This event is part of the program for the exhibition 1000 VILLAGES with Massinisa Selmani. More information about the exhibition here.