Oh Mother, What Have You Done #008

by Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff

Artist Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff (Sverige, född 1967)

Date2019

MediumUV ink and oil on plexiglass

DimensionsYttermått: 40 × 30 × 0,4 cm

ClassificationPhotography

Credit LineInköp 2021 (Svenska förvärv 2021)

Countries

Sweden, Germany

Object NumberMOM/2021/387

CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkThe series Oh Mother, What Have You Done? (2020) is based on documentary photos of arrested women collected by Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff. The works were produced by printing the scanned and dithered B/W photographs on plexiglas with UV ink and then painting with oil on the reverse. Here, the artist revisits the violent subjects she worked intensively on in the early 1990s. The title indicates that they address the role of, and relation to, a mother. The series highlights vulnerable women but also reflects on the question of guilt when a parent fails the child. In the work The Body of Anthropocene (2020), with a portrait of a raggedy, beloved teddy bear, von Hausswolff pursues her exploration, confirming that we have now entered a new geological era.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad Selected exhibition history Alternativ sekretess (den 23 oktober 2021 - den 11 september 2022) Moderna Museet Malmö Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff (den 9 april 2022 - den 11 september 2022) Moderna Museet Malmö

Works by the artist