Late Night Andersonville

Sandra Binion: Ennesbo is the interpretation of the artist’s experience of Ennesbo, a small settlement in rural
southern Sweden where Sandra Binion’s family has had a working farm for the past 300 years. It is also the
birthplace of her great-grandmother, who, at the age of 30, immigrated to the United States at the end of the
19th century.
The exhibit is a multi-media installation including multi-channel video and sound, paintings on paper,
photographs, and wall coverings. The use of Binion’s multi-media format allows the viewer an immediate
sense of movement and discovery. The space of the exhibition itself reflects Binion’s personal discovery of
unfamiliar rooms, houses, landscapes, and histories at and around the farm.
Binion’s project began in early 2006. During the summer of 2007, she spent a month in and around Ennesbo.
She was drawn to the Ennesbo farm in an effort to delve into her personal, familial, and cultural roots. Through
the richness of her time spent there, she has come to be a locus for investigating broader issues of one’s
sense of place, the effects of landscape on individual sensibility, and the transmission of cultural values across
history.
Binion’s imagery focuses on everyday activities, and through the installation format, media sites develop that
give an evocative form to these images. The artist seeks to find poetic connections that visitors can
experience in an individual way, so that, through their own associations and histories, they can connect to
some fundamental human qualities through exploring and celebrating differences.
By focusing on familial heritage, and the issues of immigration and the absence inherent in it, the Swedish
American Museum hopes to give Sandra Binion: Ennesbo a personalized entrance into Swedish culture and
history.
Sandra Binion is an interdisciplinary artist who makes live performances, video installations, and visual
artworks. Her video installations focus on distilling new associations from her travels by re-contextualizing
these images in particular architectural settings. Binion has presented over 30 performances and installations
since 1978 at numerous festivals, galleries, museums, and theaters in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Join us for the exhibit opening of Sandra Binion: Ennesbo at 6 p.m. Friday, June 27. Other opportunities to see
the exhibit early include the gallery walk at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 28, Start with Art on July 9 from 7:30 a.m.-10
a.m., and Family Night on July 17 from 4 p.m.- 7 p.m.
EXHIBIT HOURS
Tuesday - Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Closed on Mondays and major holidays.
ADMISSION
$4 adults, $3 children/students/seniors, $10 family, Museum members and children under 1 are free. The Museum is
free on the second Tuesday of every month. The Museum is wheelchair accessible.