ARTISTS

Fryd Frydenhal

Baxter St. Residency (2019)

ROOMS NEEDED: Sentimental Rooms

Fryd Frydendahl divides her time between New York and Denmark. She works within the field of photography and video. Frydendahl was born on the west coast of Denmark in 1984, graduated from Fatamorgana, the Danish school of art photography, in 2006, and received an Advanced Certificate from The International Center of Photography, General Studies in 2009. Her first book, Familiealbum, was published by the Danish Publishing house Nyt Nordisk Forlag in 2007. The book featured a collection of portraits from “the youth house”, a Danish punk venue that was sadly evicted and demolished in 2007. She is the recipient of grants from Fogtdahl’s Rejsestipendie, The Henry Margolis Foundation, and Josephine Lyons Merit Scholarship. She was a part of the 2011 CCNY fellowship program. She has had several solo exhibitions and is currently finishing two new publications that will be out in the fall of 2016.

The exhibition features a display case of research materials and eight photographic prints from a larger in-progress project titled Sentimental Rooms. It is an exploration of teenage bedrooms left partly untouched by the parents many years after their teenager moved out. Once a place to assert boundaries on their journey towards autonomous adulthood, the rooms and subjects represent a place of self-expression with a blip of nostalgia. Cluttered with memorabilia—a faded Led Zeppelin towel across an unmade bed, a recumbent E.T. toy propped up on a dusty sideboard, curled and faded pictures from a high school class trip to Egypt, Frydendahl captures a time capsule of temporal, cultural relevance.