Lotta Antonsson

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Artist statement

I belong to a generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s and whose work was inspired by postmodern art and theory. Already during in my studies at the Stockholm Art Academy, she questioned the constructed objectification of women with irony and self-distance and criticised the male view of the female body. the I explore the limits and possibilities of photography in its materiality and expression and experiments with different materials and complements photographs with natural objects such as stones, snails, corals and shells. Drawing on the aesthetics of the late 1960s, I engages with the constructed and gender stereotypes from a feminist, social and political perspective. In this context, the 1960s - an era marked by increasing global capitalism, political upheaval and a widening wealth gap - have a strong influence on my artistic work. In my artistic practice I combine objects and images from the past to enigmatic works that often take the form of sculptural constellations. I am fascinated by how forms and ideas in art and culture can re-occure in different places and at different times I see myself lf as a "collector of the past" Using the past as artist materia - my private archive includes books, images photography and fashion magazines, mainly from the 1960s and 1970s as well as a vast collections of shells,corals and stones etc that dates back to my childhood. Starting from my photographic archival material as a central element of my works, new...

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