In what way can photography be used to explore the body as both the object and the subject, as gender identity and as stereotypes? This series is rooted in the private photographs made by the women's rights activists and photographers Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944). In a commission by The National Museum of Photography in Norway, I was asked to reimagine these private images. The result of my research is a staged photomontage, challenging the rigid frame of the photographic structure. The one thing these photographers had in common is that they all used performance as a way of working with images.
