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Harder Better Faster Stronger: Are Men OK?
30 photographers explore modern and future masculinity in a digital culture.
In Sara Sadik's film, a 20-year-old man sets out to become his best self inside a modified version of Grand Theft Auto V. The body on screen is muscular and digital. The voice over it is a poetic monologue about love and insecurity.
That gap between the pose and the feeling runs through the show. Thirty artists work in photography, film and sculpture, on subjects from looksmaxxing and bar fights to paternity leave and wrestling. Johan Bävman photographs Swedish fathers who took at least six months of parental leave, and finds masculinity in presence, patience and care. The curators say they want to show how contradictory, changeable and human masculinity can be. No reviews had been published when this was written.
Entry is included in the 195 SEK museum ticket, and Fotografiska is open until 23:00 every day. Looksmaxxing is in the show, so if your feed has ever sent you jawline advice on the T-bana to Slussen, you'll recognise the subject.
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Thirty photographers look at masculinity in a digital culture. Fotografiska is open until 23:00 every day, so you can see the show late and then look out over Gamla stan from the top-floor café.
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Sara Sadik's Grand Theft Auto film
A 20-year-old man chases his best self through a modified GTA V, his muscular digital body set against a poetic monologue about love and insecurity.
Johan Bävman's parental-leave fathers
Portraits of Swedish fathers who took at least six months of leave, with everyday routines showing a masculinity built on presence, patience and care.
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- Evening Visits
- Teenagers
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- Harder Better Faster Stronger: Are Men OK?Courtesy of Fotografiska Stockholm
- City FacesCourtesy of Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)
- Byggfenomen: The First and Last Thing We SeeCourtesy of ArkDes
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian – Tehran/New YorkCourtesy of Moderna Museet
- Fotografiska StockholmJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ArkDesMarco Cappelletti, CC BY 4.0
- Moderna MuseetHolger Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0