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Klara Källström-Fäldt

Doktorand

Institutionen för tillämpad IT, avd Informatik
Besöksadress
Forskningsgången 6
417 56 Göteborg
Postadress
Box 100
412 96 Göteborg

Universitetslektor

Enheten för film, fotografi och litterär gestaltning
Besöksadress
Storgatan 43
Göteborg
Postadress
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

Om Klara Källström-Fäldt

Klara Källström is a visual artist, Senior Lecturer in Photography at HDK-Valand, and a PhD candidate in Informatics at the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Her practice explores the depiction of historical events through photography and media, emphasizing temporal disjunctures and the instability of historical narratives. Through long-term collaboration with Thobias Fäldt, she examines the intersections of journalism, state power, and photographic documentation, critically engaging with how images shape our understanding of past events and how dominant media narratives construct and mediate history.

Her work focuses on the reactivation of images in new temporal, spatial, and material contexts, revealing the gaps, ruptures, and contradictions inherent in historical representation. By working across documentary practices, investigative aesthetics, and media archaeology, she interrogates how visual narratives both reinforce and challenge dominant historical interpretations, questioning what is remembered, forgotten, or reimagined. Additionally, she examines how algorithmic mediation influences historical perception, investigating the role of AI-generated imagery and predictive computation in reshaping visual archives and the politics of memory.

Källström’s PhD project is situated at the intersection of informatics, surveillance studies, and critical media studies, focusing on the deployment of digital surveillance systems within law enforcement contexts. The project examines how advanced surveillance technologies—shaped by digitization and artificial intelligence—reconfigure power, governance, and individual rights.

Källström and Fäldt are the founders of the publishing platform B-B-B-Books (2011) and the gallery project FG2 in Gothenburg (2018), both serving as sites for artistic inquiry. Their books are part of museum collections worldwide, including Tate (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg), LACMA (Los Angeles).

Their works have been exhibited internationally at Unseen (Amsterdam), the Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow Photomonth), Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest), Le Bal and Photo Saint Germain (Paris), LACMA (Los Angeles), Aperture Foundation (New York), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), CFF/Center for Photography, and Fotografiska (Stockholm).

Upcoming Exhibitions (2025):

• Sandviken Konsthall (Sweden)

• Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (Denmark)

• Camera Austria, Graz (Austria)

Recent Exhibitions:

• The Hole, New York City, US (2025)

• Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden (2025)

• MLZ & Wiener Art Foundation, Trieste, Italy (2024)

• Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden (2024 + 2023)