About

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Nathalie Gabrielsson is an artist based in Stockholm that produces films, images, performances, installations and texts. Her work investigates modes of artistic research, narrative production, the performativity of language, strategies of distribution and how to form strategic platforms and structures of impact.

 

Her projects explores the relationship between opinion formation and cultural production, and how linguistic and aesthetic expressions, concepts and conventions, are used for strategic purposes -

how actors with a political and ideological agenda construct strategic narratives, simulate reality, build fictions and concepts that are integrated into the social fabric, and that play with our perception of authenticity, sincerity and trust.

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Her practice is interdisciplinary and includes fields such as writing of history, media and politics. The projects revolves contemporary phenomenon such as fake news, fact resistance, troll factories, contempt for politicians and the media, distrust of the democratic system, populism, filter bubbles, conspiracy theories. Phenomena that are considered to fundamentally threaten our democratic system, and which can also be seen as consequences of actors and power interests with a hidden political agenda using "the story" as a strategic tool for opinion formation, in order to influence/manipulate the public discourse and the political system to bring about concrete changes in society. The projects highlight and stage a discussion about where the border is between democratic opinion formation and manipulative propaganda and disinformation.

Gabrielsson's projects are constructed in several complex layers that build a strategic institutionality and narrative by appropriating aesthetic expressions from documentary film, opinion formation, social media, marketing, media. The projects examine the construction of strategic narratives that shape our description of reality and which in turn guide our subjective opinions and political positions.​