Biography
Christina Hallstrom grew up in Sweden, in 1998 she graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy,
Amsterdam in Graphic Design and Visual communication.
Since then she works as a freelance printmaker, photographer, graphic designer, and
filmmaker of documentary, art- and music-films based in Amsterdam. She is the co-initiator
of Cutproductions. Sometimes initiating interdisciplinary collaboration projects, sometimes
working freelance for artists, festivals, local communities or musea.
Lately she has been participating as a visual artist in dance performances integrating
sequences and live projections in the performance. On the podium she creates a layerd
visual where past, present and if possible future can merge. ‘Live’ footage is mixed with the
actual dancing going on on stage. The images are projected on to different surfaces, some of
the footage was projected on transparant cotton hanging loosly and dropping in a pile to the
floor. Often combining a close with a total and/or past and present in one.
Within photography and print she let’s herself get inspired by the medium. She developped
a very direct working method by exposing images directly on to the screen and by mixing
her own inks. Also here layering is sometimes achieved by printing on transparent fabric or
paper. In Hill, a series of still images printed on silk, this creates a non linear storytelling.
The inbetweenness of things as well as seredipity are important issues in her work.
She made two short films shot below water and since then algea is a returning subject in
her printed work.
“Her work is involved with image making and video, film, photography and print. She
collaborates with musicians and dancers, and much of her work appears in the form of DVD
files and printed images. Her work as a printmaker is in the extended and growing realm of
digital imaging, where the matrix is a digital file rather than the more traditional intaglio or
relief matrices. Her artist motto, “We exist only insofar as we hang together”, underlies the
decision to base much of her recent output on a collaborative process. In various ways this
is what printmakers have been doing for centuries, but in this artist’s case the difference lies
in her choice of technology and her global reach.”
