Ann-Sofie Sidén
Norrköpings Konstmuseum
AT MANIFESTA 2, Ann-Sofi Sidén presented the video installation Who Told the Chambermaid?, 1998, which was shot in a hotel whose rooms, corridors, and service areas the artist had equipped with surveillance devices. Guests and employees alike were targeted when the cameras focused in minute detail on their daily routines, but the artist also staged some of the events. Unembellished document and fictive scenario intertwined, indistinguishable from one another.
In Sidén's new work commissioned by Norrköpings Konstmuseum, one finds a similar formal construction in which a place with a well-defined