Exhibition Date
Opening Reception
Thursday 8 May 2025, 6 > 8PM
Visual
Rating 100%
The Linden Projects Space can be accessed via an older lift that is not DDA compliant and requires staff operation. Our team is
always available to assist—please let us know if you need support during your visit.
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
– Haruki Murakami 1Q84 Book #3
Some Confused Men is a photographic series by
Kristian Häggblom that explores the feeling of being overwhelmed in today’s chaotic world. Against the backdrop of political unrest,
economic stress, environmental concerns and the strange return of Trump, the work follows the lives of men – including the artist – who
openly express their confusion.
Through chaotic, cinema-inspired horizontal scrolls and more contemplative large-format images, this exhibition follows two tangential
visual journeys: one to rescue a broken-down car with a friend, and another to visit the grave of legendary filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. The
result is a mix of the everyday and the mysterious, inviting viewers to find their own meaning amongst the mess.
Dr Kristian Häggblom is an artist, curator, academic, and photobook collector,
who works with conceptual documentary and expanded modes of photography that have included and/or combined sound, collected objects,
video, text, publishing, performance and commissioned production. His projects explore landscape, psychology, technology and belief
systems. He completed his PhD, titled Viewing Platforms, in 2014 (Monash University). He has worked extensively in Japan and undertaken
an Australia Council for the Arts artist-in-residence on Suomenlinna island in Finland. His work has been funded and exhibited
internationally including exhibitions in Australia, Japan, America, India, Mexico, India and Switzerland. His projects have enabled him
to travel to America, South Korea, Malaysia, Kuwait, Doha and Japan and his photographs are held in substantial collections. Häggblom
is presently working on a publication to be released by Perimeter Editions. Curatorially, he recently established Speculative Horizons
which is a collaboration between Kuwait, Japan and Australia and in 2018 he curated Tsuka: an exhibition of contemporary Japanese
photography.