Maja Daniels

“Gertrud” 2024. Fotografi, installation, video.
In 1667 the 12-year-old girl Gertrud Svensdotter was accused of walking on water in Älvdalen, Sweden. The event marked the beginning of the Swedish witch-hunts, a period of mass hysteria and horror in Älvdalen and its neighbouring regions. This series brings the history and myth surrounding these events into the present day and allows the world in which Gertrud lived to be resurrected on new terms, where the outcome is not yet settled.

Most of the images in this series are created through interventions in the landscape.

I shape my own rituals and create new myths that draw on the elements of already existing ones.
They become a way for me to expand on and challenge certain historical constructs and to show how a visual narrative can recreate our relationship with the past, present and future.

Om:
Maja Daniels (b. 1985) is a Swedish photography-based artist. Her work is influenced by her studies in sociology and can be described as a multi-layered academic and artistic practice that includes sociological methodology, sound, moving image and archive materials, aiming to further explore each medium’s narrative and performative functions. Her work centers on history, memory, and how these notions affect our view of the present.

Utställningsplats: Härnösands konsthall