Today Tomorrow Forever is an extensive solo exhibition by Annica Karlsson Rixon, presented at Göteborgs Konsthall this summer. The exhibition includes selected works from the 1990s and onwards including her latest work from 2006.

Annica Karlsson Rixon's interest in photography as an artistic medium imbues her line of work. Many of her pieces explore the interim between documentary photography and staged scenarios, putting the authenticity of the image into question. She consistently works with issues like identity and representation: how is an art canon created; who is included and on what grounds?

Portraits always have constituted an important aspect of Annica Karlsson Rixon’s work. Since the 1990s she has photographed a still growing circle of colleagues and friends. Her series of artists’ portraits started with Portraits in Nordic Light (1997–1998), and after this each new project has generated the next: Annika by the Sea (1999–2001), Private Premises (2003) and Resonance (2006). New questions are continuously raised catalysing the progression of her work.

Her latest work, Resonance (2006), produced in close co-operation with Anna Viola Hallberg, is a documentation of our time based on filmed portraits, photos and interviews with artists, curators and art historians who have, in one way or another, made their mark within the art world. Karlsson Rixon poses questions concerning life choices, strategies and power, and we are presented with the participants’ thoughts on professional identity as well as how they see the possibilities and ideas for co-operation within the field of contemporary art. The work consists of several elements that are modified continuously. An extended version will be shown at Göteborgs Konsthall. Featured are Annika Eriksson, Annika von Hausswolff, Annika Larsson, Maria Lind, Annika Lundgren, Tone Olaf Nielsen, Ann-Sofie Sidén, Annika Ström, Gitte Villesen and Annika Öhrner.

Annica Karlsson Rixon was born in Gothenburg where she still lives and works. She has a background working in a documentary tradition, but at the beginning of the 90s she joined a generation of artists that made an international breakthrough with feminist and theoretically aware pieces. She was appointed professor at the School of Photography at Göteborg University 2003 where she is currently conducting research.

The exhibition Today Tomorrow Forever is produced by Norrköpings Konstmuseum in co-operation with Göteborgs Konsthall and Uppsala konstmuseum. Curator: Marianne Hultman. A catalogue with conversations between Fanny Ambjörnsson, Gertrud Sandqvist and Annica Karlsson Rixon is being produced in conjunction with the exhibition.