PHOTO:Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff-Alternative Secrecy
Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff has worked from the platform of photography since the early nineties. In dialogue with both the external world and psychological inner realms she has created works in many different techniques and appearances – always with aspects of photography in mind. She currently holds a position as Adjunct Professor in Photography at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Moderna Museet Archive
Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff’s exhibition “Alternative Secrecy” looks back, while positioning itself in the present, and highlights the scope of an artistic oeuvre that has challenged and fascinated a large and initiated audience for thirty years. Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff’s art has been acknowledged and analysed in countless publications, and she has continuously developed her ideas in many projects. Alternative Secrecy comprises some one hundred works from her entire career and a few recent pieces made especially for this presentation. In this exhibition, are shown one hundred works from Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff’s entire career. In addition to photographs, she has created with sculptures, textiles and installations. As a child, Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff was fascinated by Nordisk kriminalkrönika, a magazine that reported on Swedish crime in text and images. Since then, women’s vulnerability, violence and psychoanalytical theories have supplied much of the subject matter for her art. But this multifaceted artist’s career has not only concerned the arts and visual art. In the late 1980s, von Hausswolff was also a singer in the third edition of the legendary punk rock group Cortex. For the exhibition, Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff has also selected some 50 works from the Moderna Museet collection. “Every image I’ve selected has asked me a question or argued its case. I have answered by affirming its existence. Together the pictures constitute an incomplete map of my own work,” writes Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff says. These works are shown as an independent part of the exhibition and in dialogue with von Hausswolff’s own works. Artists represented include Ivan Aguéli, Irving Penn, Ulla Wiggen and Francesca Woodman.
Photo: Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff, An Oral Story of Economic Structures, 2012−13, © Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff
Info: Curator: Anna Tellgren, Moderna Museet, Exercisplan 4, 111 49 Stockholm, Sweden, Duration: 23/10/21-23/2/2022, Days & Hours: Tue-Thu & Sat-Sun 10:00-18:00, Fri 10:00-20:00, www.modernamuseet.se
