commissioned double portrait
by mikael askergren ©
axel mörner and anette strandberg, both from stockholm, sweden, were married in the chapel of drottningholm royal palace on
all swedish newlyweds place a wedding ad in one of, or both of stockholm's two daily morning newspapers dagens nyheter and svenska dagbladet. on saturday and sunday mornings, several pages are filled with wedding ads. swedish wedding ads are always illustrated with a photograph: a wedding ceremony snapshot or the like.
mikael askergren's double portrait is not the kind of image one would expect to find in a swedish wedding ad. the double portrait was of course inspired by the famous sequence in ingmar bergman's persona (1966), in which the two faces of the confused nurse (bibi andersson) and the neurotic patient (liv ullmann) are for a moment fused together, to become one flesh...
the illustrated wedding advertisement appeared in stockholm's two important morning newspapers on
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for further information, please contact galleri axel mörner:
www.axelmorner.com