Exhibition 'Michella Bredahl - Rooms We Made Safe' in Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
This coming autumn Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography will present Rooms We Made Safe, the first museum exhibition by the rising artist Michella Bredahl (1988, Greve, Denmark). Bredahl is known for her distinctively intimate portraits of friends and acquaintances, capturing them in unguarded moments at home. Yet a home does not necessarily mean safety. Tracing a deeply personal lineage, the show reaches back to photographs taken by Bredahl’s mother before her birth, and those they created together during her childhood.
Bredahl grew up in a social housing district on the outskirts of Copenhagen with her single mother and her younger sister. The apartment was filled with a vibrant colour palette that defied the prevailing minimalist Scandinavian aesthetic. Each room had its own distinct hue: deep blue, bright red, and floral patterns blooming across the surfaces. When Bredahl was seven, her mother handed her camera to her. Together they would document their shared intimate daily lives. At a young age the two sisters were confronted with their mother’s addiction, which had a deep impact on them. In Rooms We Made Safe Bredahl revisits the terrain of her youth, once a dangerous space, and reimagines it into a powerful artistic expression. Each of Huis Marseille’s rooms is assigned to a different period of her work, paying homage to her documentation of domestic spaces.
