Ingeborg Kraft Fermin (b. 1993 in Stockholm) is a Swedish artist and performer based in Amsterdam and Stockholm. She is also half of the performance duo Content y Contenido with Lucía Vives, and has exhibited works and/or performed at the Stedelijk (NL), La Casa Encendida (ES), Galeria Zé dos Bois (PT), the Grey Space in the Middle (NL) and Perdu (NL).
Ingeborg Kraft Fermin graduated in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2022.
My practice begins with an instinct to examine the world around me and all its mediated forms. Working across multimedia installation, video, sculpture, and performance, I delve into themes of longing, memory preservation, mass consumption, and the impact of social media on our lives and identities. In my work, a myriad of references intermingle to create unexpected narratives inviting curiosity about how and why things are the way they are. I gather phenomena from day-to-day life that perfectly capture our contemporary condition — like the vending of fried fish from a tractor on a Dutch fake beach, or the mass production of a cocktail stick shaped like a naked woman’s body — and combine these with a hyper-personal narrative. In doing so, I can expose the idiosyncrasies of my generation; when I talk about myself, I mean society, I mean humanity.
Indeed, I see humour as an important tool for approaching my subjects, as well as undermining the viewer’s expectations. I’m interested in contradiction as a catalyst for reflection and my work often fluctuates between being subtle and kitsch; sincere and obscure; serious and silly. I consider the installation of my works in space an extension of their meaning and a method to re-emphasise or re-frame both content and current context. Often, I work site-specifically. Ultimately, my practice is a Sisyphean pursuit of capturing the present, urging us to stay, to look, and to play before we miss out.
Ingeborg Kraft Fermin graduated in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2022.
My practice begins with an instinct to examine the world around me and all its mediated forms. Working across multimedia installation, video, sculpture, and performance, I delve into themes of longing, memory preservation, mass consumption, and the impact of social media on our lives and identities. In my work, a myriad of references intermingle to create unexpected narratives inviting curiosity about how and why things are the way they are. I gather phenomena from day-to-day life that perfectly capture our contemporary condition — like the vending of fried fish from a tractor on a Dutch fake beach, or the mass production of a cocktail stick shaped like a naked woman’s body — and combine these with a hyper-personal narrative. In doing so, I can expose the idiosyncrasies of my generation; when I talk about myself, I mean society, I mean humanity.
Indeed, I see humour as an important tool for approaching my subjects, as well as undermining the viewer’s expectations. I’m interested in contradiction as a catalyst for reflection and my work often fluctuates between being subtle and kitsch; sincere and obscure; serious and silly. I consider the installation of my works in space an extension of their meaning and a method to re-emphasise or re-frame both content and current context. Often, I work site-specifically. Ultimately, my practice is a Sisyphean pursuit of capturing the present, urging us to stay, to look, and to play before we miss out.
photo: Carmen Gray
