Marta’s Atelier
Detail by Marta Berglund, Riksarkivet Visby
“Crucial pieces are missing in history — women have disappeared, or remain forgotten in the archives.”
An interactive installation, it explores photography in the past and present, as memory and representation, and archive. The exhibition includes prints, video projections, text, objects, and archive materials. Designed as a research lab, the artist invites the public to participate in the process of discovering the archive of a historical female photographer, Marta Berglund.
Women remain forgotten in history, and there is a lack of source material for the 20th century. Collaborating with the National Swedish Archive, the artist attempts to remedy this by placing the archive into the realm of a museum, while posing the question: “How do you archive yourself for an unknown future?”
Press (Swedish)
“How do you archive yourself for an unknown future?”
