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Coral Arm. Ur serien Body Geology
© Lotta Antonssonl
Coral Arm. Ur serien Body Geology
Coral Arm. Ur serien Body Geology
Photo repro: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet

Coral Arm. Ur serien Body Geology

by Lotta Antonsson
Artist (Sverige, född 1963)
Alternate Title
  • Coral Arm. From the series Body Geology
Date2016
MediumInkjet print mounted on aluminum
DimensionsYttermått: 50 × 75 × 2,5 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Object NumberMOM/2021/205
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.
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