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Hedda

Artist
Fin Serck-Hanssen
Price
$70.00
Date
2021
Publisher
Loose Joints
Format
Artists' Books
ISBN
978-1-912719-26-6
Size
23.5 × 32 cm
Length
134 pp
Genre
Photography, LGBTQ2S+
Description

Over the last five years, Norwegian artist Fin Serck-Hanssen followed and documented the gender confirming journey of close friend Hedda, who from her early twenties travelled from Oslo to Buenos Aires and Bangkok to undergo cosmetic surgeries and a vaginoplasty.

Serck-Hanssen and Hedda’s images are made collaboratively to build a complex portrait of both physical and psychological changes within a young person’s life and show with unflinching honesty the realities of Hedda’s confirming, surgeries, and recovery. Hedda reflects on the construction of identity in the 21st century, mixing her selfies and curation of an online identity against Serck-Hanssen’s tender but direct portraiture of her most vulnerable moments. The book also bears traces of this identity being shaped: dark, almost imperceptible images, heavy with overprinted black ink, show the traces of photographs of that Hedda chose not to disclose of herself. Hedda finishes with an immersive short fictional story by novelist Genevieve Hudson, exploring ideas of ambiguity, transition and change.

Embossed hardcover with tip-in, multiple gatefolds and papers

With a short story by Genevieve Hudson
Designed by Mevis & Van Deursen
Edited by Tommaso Speretta

  1. Hedda
  2. Hedda 2
Images: 1 2
 

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