Sunshine in an empty room
‘Sunshine in an empty room’ is the fourth and last film in the work 'The Three Hearts'. The film mediates the realization of the impossibility to dictate one’s life story. It employs a language that has the qualities of a fairy-tale, where human and animal characters blend in and out of each other in a world of heightened colour. The merging characters and the use of collage in the sceneries mark an acceptance of the world as an ongoing flux. The voice-over in French, with no translation, points to the acceptance of things that cannot be understood. Through the film the sun is setting, and in the last scene it finally sets in vivid colours, a symbolic marking of a conclusion.

Malin Ståhl
Malin Ståhl (1972), originally from Östersund, Sweden, is based in London. She received her training at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In her work she examines structures of femininity and role-playing through the mediums of video, performance and the written word. Upcoming exhibitions include: Axiom Axioma at la Viande Gallery, London, A Certain Kind of Conditioning at Lorem Ipsum Gallery, London, Turtle Salon, Paris, Out in the Open, a textual performance for Cluster Magazine and a solo show at the Lorem Ipsum Gallery in 2008.

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