SEA

by Lotta Antonsson

Artist Lotta Antonsson (Sverige, född 1963)

Date2019

MediumCollage with printed paper and shells

DimensionsRam: 74,9 × 94,8 × 4 cm

ClassificationPhotography

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden, United Kingdom

Object NumberMOM/2021/204

CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkPutting oneself in front of the camera and using one’s own body to portray not a specific woman but a cliché, woman as the dream vision of a male, controlling gaze, was a strategy used by a number of seminal Swedish women artists as a way of focusing on whose gaze is reproduced by the camera lens. They were influenced by American postmodern feminist theory and had a major breakthrough in Sweden in the early 1990s. Lotta Antonsson was one of them. For three decades, she has continued to deliver urgent works that expand our notions of photography and its potential. In recent works, Antonsson has employed collage techniques, often introducing pictures from 1960s and 1970s magazines and adding objects such as seashells to their surface, or photographing the collage and giving rise to a totally new two-dimensional image.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad "Lotta Antonsson 2019" på baksidan Selected exhibition history Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Works by the artist