I Am Woman

Lotta Antonsson's I Am a Woman (Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm, 2016) gathers the Swedish artist's collages and montages, cutting fashion and erotic photography from vintage print sources and pairing the fragments with natural forms: a shell pressed over a sleeping face on the cover, driftwood, minerals. The work reads eroticism and ephemerality through the same cut.

Designed by Aoki, the 128-page softcover reproduces the work in full color and black and white. Patrik Andersson's essay locates the work in the “documentary and fiction blur” of the late 1960s and '70s, where the social and sexual revolutions of that era resurface in Antonsson's analogue cuts and repetitions Charlotte Cotton and Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen contribute additional texts.

Antonsson works across photography, sculpture, and collage, returning often to found and appropriated imagery to examine the gendered histories embedded in mass media. I Am a Woman continues that inquiry, freeing fashion and erotic photography from their original contexts to expose the clichés, and the allegorical potential, locked inside them.