True Emotion Rehersal Tapes by Iris Smeds.
Iris Smeds is a Swedish artist (b.-84) working with projects that involves text, art and public performance. Her work regards issues as identity, merchandise and art as entertainment as well as spiritual value of art and humankind, surrealism and poetry as method for idea production.
Smeds work True Emotion Rehersal Tapes was shown at Videogalleriet at Trädgården in Stockholm during the summer 2015 and vas curated by Johan Norling. The work consists of multichannel video screens, where the artist expresses different micro expression that convey the emotions of happiness, contempt, sadness, disgust, anger, fear and surprise. This micro expression is based on psychologist Paul Ekmans work from 1980. The short micro expressions in a person’s face are also used at lie detectors, thou the theory says that a person cannot hide this microsecond of emotions.
Smeds work is based on humans’ emotions. It can be seen as the fundament, the material and the idea of the work at the same time. We do not need to know what emotions the work mediates, but we can be sure that we act in some way as beholders. When you meet a person’s face, expressing a feeling, you instinctively take action. You look away, ore keep on looking, you make a discission based on your own emotions. The important part on True Emotion Rehersal Tapes is that will have an emotional impact on the beholder in some way.
/Susanne Fessé, December 2020
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Iris Smeds, True Emotion Rehersal Tapes.