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How many times have you woken up and prayed for the rain?
How many times have you seen the papers apportion the blame?
Who gets to say? Who gets to work and who gets to play?
I was always told at school, everybody should get the same.
â¶Ä¨There's always the sun, (always the sun).
&²Ô²ú²õ±è;There's always the sun
Always, always (always the sun).

Always the sun by The Stranglers (part of the lyrics above) is one of the recurrent soundtracks in the video Under a serpent sky by the Stockholm based artist Anneè Olofsson. The other soundtrack is a male and a female voice that reads news dealing with murder, suicide, accidents etc – presumably coming out of the radio that is standing in-between the two sunbathers sitting on the towel enjoying a sunny day at the beach.

Annee Olofsson is an artist working  with video, photography, sculpture and installation. Throughout her career she has worked consistently with topics that deal with family relationship and power conditions. Annee uses her own life as an artistic tool for analyzing how we relate to each other and to the outside world. In this video, she herself appears as one of the main characters, while the two men who alternate at her side are her father and her husband.

Annee is included in the Moderna museet collection, at MoMA in New York and other major institutions around the world. She was born in 1966 in the south of Sweden, and she was educated at The Royal Art Academy in Oslo, Norway.