Bio
Filip Fredrik Haglund (b. 1990) is a visual artist working in video from Stockholm, Sweden based in London, the UK. He is a Philosophy, Politics and Economics graduate of Stockholm University and a BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate of Central Saints Martins, University of the Arts London and a MFA graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London. His work has been shown at among other The Photographers’ Gallery (London), Tube Gallery, MAPS Magazine, PAP Magazine, Schön!, Aesthetica Future Now, 1.4, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, London Fashion Film Festival, Kinsale Shark, and The Young Director’s Award.
Practice
My practice looks at the concerns of identity, power structures and mental illness, it is an interdisciplinary practice that merges performance, installation, and video. Drawing from my personal experience of living with bipolar disorder, I delve into the complex interplay between identity and the societal power structures that seek to define and confine us. My work questions how these external constructs shape who we are, and how we might resist or transcend them. I also look at it through the perspective of the body and how our mental disposition puts restrictions on our body.
My work interrogates the societal frameworks that attempt to define and contain us, questioning how power operates through institutional and cultural systems, to impose normative expectations on our bodies and minds. I seek to make visible, the often invisible struggles of navigating identity within these systems. I am particularly interested in how the body becomes a site of tension, both a vessel of expression and a battleground for internal and external control. Blurring the lines between vulnerability and resistance, my work invites viewers to confront the fragility and resilience inherent in the human condition.