Corpus

New Nordic Photography, 2014, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg.
10 aluminium plates inscribed with a lasercutter. Each 19×15 cm.

Anja Linnea Hellström: Corpus

Anja Linnea Hellström explores the photographic medium as well as the
margins of visuality in these plates, which remind us of earliest
heliographic experiments by for instance Nicéphore Niépce in the beginning
of the 19th century. Anja Linnea Hellström’s pictures are not written by the
sun but by laser light. Corpus consist of a series of original, unique
aluminium plates inscribed with a laser cutter – and with motives that all
have to do with structures, space and visual framings of the world. The
artist states: “When working my photographs into different materials I
explore them linguistically. By saying that ‘there is more to the picture
than meets the eye’ I wish to say that a photograph is touching in the sense
that it evokes a narrative surrounding. We attach words, words enter the
space between the picture and the eye. That is why photography may move the
world.” Anja Linnea Hellström (b 1975) is completing her bachelor degree in
photography at Valand Academy, Gothenburg University in 2014. Prior to that
she has earned degrees in Psychology and Theory of Science. She currently
works at the editorial board of the Swedish Literature Bank.

Catalogue text in New Nordic Photography, Hasselblad foundation, 2014