Lotta Antonsson, SE

Lotta Antonsson (b. 1963) belongs to a generation of artists who emerged in the early 1990s and addressed the objectification of women.

She studied fine arts and photography in Stockholm at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design and at theRoyal Art Academy in Copenhagen. Antonsson was a professor of photography (2007 – 2016) at the Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg. Her works have been in numerous international exhibitions, including the Västerås Konsthall(2020), the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Based on the aesthetics of the 1960s and 1970s – a time of social upheaval – Lotta Antonsson complements vintage photographs from her archive of fashion, erotic, and lifestyle magazines such as Twen, Das Magazin, and Playboy and printed matters with natural materials (shells, driftwood, gemstones) in her collages. She examines the historical and photographic representation, the objectification of women, and the male gaze under formal and psychological aspects. A recurring theme in her work has involved feminist perspectives reconstructing cultural treatment of the female body in particular.