Beskrivning av projektet: The exhibition consists of photographic documents of houses and places left behind. Abandoned by the people who once inhabited them, urban explorers and graffiti artists are now the only ones who enter these buildings through closed doors and windows. In spite of the lack of legitimate activity in these places, the photographs provide a narrative of man¹s symbiosis with the buildings she erects. These are temporary abodes which like train stations accompany our journey through life. In this context the title OVERHAUL becomes both a statement and a question. Is our world in urgent need of renovation or is an improvement already in progress? The documentary imagery has been von Hausswolff¹s principal characteristic but her photographs have until now always been carefully staged with a clear conceptual approach. Her new body of work is both clearly rooted in her early fascination for documentary photography inspired by photographers like Anders Petersen and Christer Strömholm but they are also leaving the last decades of staged imagery behind. Still though, many elements in von Hausswolff¹s new works refer to her early works. Annika von Hausswolff has through the years used the desolated space as a motive in both two- and three-dimensional form. A strong feeling of after the fact has been evoked and the melancholia that her new works might cause has always been present in her images. Her gaze is still the same but the boundaries of the documentary are stretched and bent.