After Hours

After Hours is a video installation exploring how we are affected by social norms and expectations in an office environment. Hjelm explores what happens at the office when everyone has gone home and who we are allowed to become when we meet outside the given boundaries. In the scenes, the individuals meet in a much more human, intimate and loving way than what is customary at an office. The art piece consists of several film sequences with various character put together as a whole. After Hours is a playful and sagacious comment on the working life today, with all its roles and implied rules.

After Hours is screened in the SSE Atrium 

Mats Hjelm (b. 1959) is an artist and documentary filmmaker, working conceptually with lens-based works and monumental video installations. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and he has also studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the US, Stockholm University and University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki. In several video works such as Black Like Him (2008), Father’s Day at the Shrine of the Black Madonna (2006), and the Trilogy (White Flight /Man to Man/Kap Atlantis, 1997-2003), the history of the Civil Rights movement is in focus. Poetic images interwoven with documentary footage tell stories of oppression, pride and the complexity of integration.