Fia Backström
(January 23 - February 8)

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New York-based Swedish artist Fia Backströmexplores new modes of co-existence, in the social gap between images and format. Denying characterization, hermaterials range fromprinted matter, pottery, textile and merchandise-base objects, to appropriated images, events and performances of her own texts. Backström inaugurates this season’s Front Room with a new installation.

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Image Credit: Fia Backström, Installation in The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2009. Photo by Nicole Stevens.

General support for the Contemporary’s exhibitions program is generously provided by the Whitaker Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; William E. Weiss Foundation; Regional Arts Commission; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Arts and Education Council; Nancy Reynolds and Dwyer Brown; and members of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.