In Transition Russia, catalogue. Exhibition NCCA Ekaterinburg and Moscow 2008
Neme, Isolomania exhibition catalogue. Nimac centre for contemporary Art Nicosia Cyprus 2008
Berliner Morgenpost, Live Kulturmagazine 14-20/2 2008
Antikvärlden magazine nr 12/2007
Bukowskis Modern+Contemporary+Design Auction
Catalogue nr: 545 October 2007
Interview in the internet based artmagazine Konsten.net October 2007
d/art/07 Sydney Australia text about exhibition
Interview at Framtidskonsten website 2007
Bukowskis Modern+Contemporary+Design Auction
Catalogue nr: 541 October 2006
Book. Skånska Fotografer 1845 - 2005.
Publication made by Malmö Museum
/ Photographers from Skåne 1845 - 2005
Book Innehåll: Konst (Content: art) for the exhibition Samtidskonsten i fokus (Contemporary art in focus)
Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg Sweden
Bukowskis Modern+Contemporary+Design Auction
Catalogue nr: 539 April 2006
Helsingborgs Lexikonet 2006. Lexicon over the City of Helsingborg
Helsingborgs Dagblad april 2006
"My photoalbum". Double-page spread interview and pictures from my life
GöteborgsPosten 2004
Occupation: artist
One page interview and presentation on "Dana Sederowsky, occupation: artist"
Göteborgs Posten 7/10 2005
Review soloexhibition "Capri"
at Gothenburg Konstförening
Excerpt:
Over the past several years Dana Sederowsky has established an unusual position in Gothenburg art life through her character the Doctor in her project Dana Aid. This is a self-creation that faces towards fiction, and this fiction faces towards a modern myth:
the nurse. But who is the nurse, now that she no longer exists - at least not in Swedish hospitals, wearing a uniform like that?
The nurse-cliché appears in popular culture, in pornography, and is commented in highbrow culture, most recently in a series of paintings by Richard Prince, a phenomenon that would deserve its cultural history study.
If Dana Sederowskys character and uniform would have been a short art school project,
it would have been less surprising.
But specifically because of the continuity in her appearance throughout the years, this has given her credibility, however ambivalent the project remains, in a sliding scale between true seriousness and dripping irony.
Maybe the character has now acted for so long that she sees herself as an artwork in her own right. That would explain why she is now on a travel grant to Axel Munthes Villa San Michele on Capri, and why she is now posing in front of her own camera, not facing us, perhaps overwhelmed by the beauty in the environment.
We see her in large color photographs, sitting in the garden, overlooking the sea from the balcony, climbing stairs, as well as enacting all this in a thirteen minute video - sometimes in slowmotion - accompanied by the most famous parts of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff and Madame Butterfly by Puccini. You have to remember that Munthe was a doctor. Is it in his absent eyes that she reflects herself? There is a melancholy in this solitude.
Who will she nurse?
Mikael Olofsson
Helsingborgs dagblad 14/9-05
Dunkers makes Ars Copenhagen nordic. Review exhibition Ars Copenhagen.
Excerpt from comment from curator from Magnus Jensner( Dunker Culture House):
I have chose a couple still photographs from Helsingborg born artist Dana Sederowskys project Dana Aid, in which she appears as a nurse. Her way of working with a social perspective and involving the audience is interesting.
Colliere della Sera 17/7-05
In the video Capri, The Doctor is in Anacapri and being totally absorbed by the most intimate emotions, which presumably concerns a loved one that she is missing. We see her climbing the Fenician Stairs, later by the Sphinx where the Doctor seems to be waiting for someone while overlooking the bay of Naples a boat approaches Marina Grande Harbour .. and who knows what or who it might bring on board.
The piece is accompanied
by extremely beautiful music.
The other two videoinstallations are called: I don´t feel like telling you anything and Get me the hell out of this boredom, which are provocative towards the audience and reflect on the doubts and disstatisfactions in our daily lives.
Francesco Durante
Capri Night and Day July 2005
Exhibition at Villa San Michele, Capri, Italy.
For the first time, the Swedish video artist Dana Sederowsky has chosen to place her new video works in a site-specific environment, the blue island,(otherwise known as Capri) which is an ideal place.
The classical music that accompanies the videos is a transportation vehicle for the great emotions..she wants to make the spectator reflect on different issues, existential topics that concern us all.This time, in the video Capri, it is not by asking the questions herself, but instead by creating questions through silence. It is as if she has recently woken up from a long, long drowse.
Colliere del Mezzogiorno July 2005
Exhibition at Villa San Michele, Capri Italy.
Success for Dana
...a nurse who deals with the case of life, the destiny of life with the spectator observing. The exhibition is one of the most interesting surprises from the event list of the island, also because one of the video installations was created on site, on Capri, from which the work takes its name.
Göteborgs Posten 2/4-05
Whos paradise are we talking about?
Review exhibition Today in Paradise
-Genetics and Art at Röda Sten Gothenburg 2005
Excerpt:
Genetics is a fact, but whose paradise are we talking about? That is a question that the exhibition promises to answer, or at least comment on with some kind of humor. For the latter, Dana Sederowsky is here. In the format of a poster she lets her ´Doctor´deliver a message in a speech balloon: "I am all for cloning!" she says. She also says she can have sex with herself if she was cloned and that would be perfect. But the Doctor really doesn´t care. We know that from earlier works. She simply symbolizes a professional cog in a society where no-one has any personal responsibility. She raises, with maximal distance, thoughts that lead straight into the dark and terriffying, where the eagerness of science is united with an astonishing capacity for ignoring other peoples suffering. Words change, racial biology is nowadays called medical genetics.
Astrid von Rosen
Intervju Göteborgs Posten 2004
Faktum magazine nr 34 2004
Foto magazine nr 7-8 2004
Book Innehåll: Konst (Content: art) for the exhibition Samtidskonsten i fokus (Contemporary art in focus)
Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg Sweden 2003
Helsingborgs Dagblad 31/12-03
Review exhibition "Contemporary art in focus"
Excerpt:
In Dana Sederowskys dvd I am so sorry - I don´t care
a woman dressed as a nurse screams at the spectator in English.
The piece is impossible to ignore. She says she has had enough of her ´patients´and their problems. If they only knew how much work she has to do.
Review Dagens Nyheter 24/3-03
The images of women in commercial pictures is questioned at billboards
Billboard exhibition "Women 2003" Copenhagen, Denmark.
Amelia magazine dec-03
BLT 30/5-02
Women photographers in Ronneby
Excerpt:
It tickles and provoces. Especially Dana Sederowskys videoinstallation " I am so sorry - I don´t care".
Helsingborg Dagblad 13/6-02
More aestetics that content in young photography" Exhibition Skånska photographers born after 1970.
Except:
Dana Sederowskys photograph of three members of a family (American?) fascinates me. A man holds a gun up in the air right above a woman who smiles towards the camera. The images has a story, in a caught situation between playfulness and seriousness.
Bohuslänningen 26/11-01
Art that wants to reflect on the environment
Excerpt:
Biggest chance to affect has Dana Sederowskys cardboard cut-out figure/nurse which meets the spectator in the entrance carrying her first aid kit as a little girl and the text
" We have to protect ourselves!" on her chest.
Nöjesguiden may 2001
Doctor Dana does the last round
Excerpt:
..now the Doctor is fed up with all she has seen in the lives of us people and under the statement " I am so sorry - I don´t care" she occupies the Gothenburg Art Museum in May and shows us what feels like being a last will on her observation into mankinds nature and games.
GT 15/5-01
Exhibition Gothenburg Art Museum
...the whole exhibition is strong and appealing on a political feministic level that is new, and pretty far from the seventies...This is proclamation art that has sunk and reappeared in a different format. The message is defiant, straight complex.
Göteborgs Posten Gränslöst 11/1 2001
Nöjesguidens årsredovisning 2001
Göteborgs Posten 2001
Doctor Dana has stopped caring
...when Dana Sederowsky now exhibits at The Gothenburg Art Museum in Stenasalen under the title: I am so sorry - I don´t care it seems as ´the Doctor´ has quit. Or at least become less altruistic. In a short video-monologue she takes on issues: the self-righteousness in our society, the narrowness of outlook and helplessness. Now someone else has to take care of it. ..the room in the video is cut off by a white tarpaulin which is associated to something temporary. A provisional space without history or future.
Ulrika Stahre
The Life Foundation Artist Grant 2000
Statement by the Jury:
Milou Allerholm, Art Critic, David Elliot, director, Per Huttner, artist, Bo Madestrand, Editor and art critic, John Peter Nilsson, editor, Bill Rubino, chairman and Dagmar Schmidt, grant founder.
In her project Dana Aid, Dana Sederowsky investigates notions of the institutionalisatopn of care and human feeling, especially in the way how uniforms and symbols are representative of power and trust. She is questioning the caring role of the welfare state by highlighting aid as a universal symbol for empathy. By doing this she is directly confronting, in a sardonic way, the relationship between ethical values and lived experience.
Interview at Swedish Radio channel P3, Frank visits Dana Sederowsky at home 2000
Interview Swedish Radio channel P1, about "Artphotography" Cindy Sherman, Tuija Lindstrom etc
Los Angeles Biennal d ´art international winter 2000
by Steve Rockwell
Grant from Helsingborg City 2000:
Parts of the motivation:
Dana has a deep personal engagement and a clear desire to investigate important subjects concearning human existance. With great familiarity and with many different means of expression, together with a highly developed power of portraying characters, Dana Sederowsky creates important artworks of our time.
Arbetet ny tid 3/6-00
Tidskriften Foto 2000
12 selects 12. Photographers of the future.
Former professor Tuija Lindström at Photoschool, gothenburg University chose Dana:
She has a wonderful faith in art and in herself, which is not that common today. In her performance works and exhibitions with photography, objects and video she dares to try things out, experiment and listen to her intuition.
GT 6/7-99
Doctor Dana conquers the world with her splendid as well as manifest character.
Glänta artmagazine nr 4-99
Göteborgs Posten 11/12-99
Some Dolly Parton and the Muppet show
Absolut Art International Business Wire. July 14th 1999
The Swedish Edge
Zon Magazine 1999
Elle Magazine nr 4-99
Doctor Dana takes care of you
Excerpt:
Dana Sederowskys art communicates through infection
Borås Tidning 29/5-99
Trollhättans Tidning 18/6-99
Göteborgs Tidning 6/7-99
Scandinavien Direkt okt-99
Excerpt:
Doctor Danas reception is a game about surfaces, between her faked nurse and the faked patient. it is performance art of a postmodern cut, a trick of illusions.
Aftonbladet Puls 17/10-98
Doctor Danas work of art
Göteborgs Posten Aveny okt 1998
The Doctor and the Blue Diamond
Interview about first soloexhibition at Maneten Gallery Gothenburg 1998
Excerpt:
...(about the character) : She is alone in the pictures. If other people are around they are not facing the camera. In order to have the energy to help someone else, be there, come close to another person, the price that she may have to pay is loneliness..this is absolutely not a funny thing to work with, this is not irony, this is totally serious.
Nöjesguiden 1998
Pair of art
Nöjesguiden 1998
Multikulti
Göteborgs Spionen 1997
With a sence of double meanings
Kvällsposten 5/10-97
The photographic representation
Helsingborgs dagblad 12/9-97