Alice Millet – Du verre et de l’ortie / Of Nettles and Glass

Alice Millet (born 1993) is a French photographer based in Malmö since 2018. She trained at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie (ENSP) in Arles, France, and graduated in 2017. Her works have been exhibited in both Sweden and France, and her photographs are included in Region Skåne’s art collection. The first part of her work with the Malmö Damsällskap’s archive has been published by Centrum för fotografi in the (Periferi) ’22 project. Alice Millet’s work revolves around questions about the photographic medium, representation, and feminism.

In Du verre et de l’ortie / Of Nettles and Glass, Alice Millet has used the anthotype method, an older photographic process that utilizes plant chlorophyll, to create sun prints from the Malmö Damsällskap’s archival images. Malmö Damsällskap was one of Sweden’s many associations that worked to include women in the public sphere in the early 1900s. In this work, Alice Millet focuses on women’s place in society during the emergence of photography. During photography’s breakthrough, gender segregation was at its strongest in Europe, which raises the question: who depicts the world and who is allowed to be seen?

Anna Nordquist Andersson – Shift of Meaning

Anna Nordquist Andersson was born in 1976 in Malmö and trained at the Malmö Art Academy 1997–2002, where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree. She has participated in a large number of exhibitions at galleries and art institutions in Sweden and abroad, including Galleri Vasili Souza in Oslo (Transillumination, 2021), Ayumi Gallery in Tokyo (2017), Marabouparken (Genomsyn, 2016), Galleri Ping-Pong in Malmö (Black Chamber, 2014), Trondheim Kunstmuseum (Lips Painted Red, 2013), Turku Art Museum in Finland (DEJA VU, 2012), Peter Lav Gallery in Copenhagen (I See Through You, 2012), Malmö Art Museum (The Real Thing, 2008), Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Facades, 2007) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen (From Dust to Dusk, 2003). She is represented at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Malmö Art Museum, Ystad Art Museum, Region Skåne, the National Arts Council, Nirox Foundation and Centro Cultural Andratx.

Anna Nordquist Andersson’s new works are about reduction. They are also strongly linked to various female pioneers in avant-garde art and textile traditions where patches of old fabric are joined together to form something new.

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(Centrum) is a series of exhibitions shown at Galleri Format, Projektrum Hjärne, Kristianstad Art Gallery, and Tjörnedala Art Gallery during the period April 19 – June 9. Eight photographers participate – Linnéa Cramer, Erich Hörtnagl, Axel Lundgren, Alice Millet, Anna Nordquist Andersson, Jens Nordström, Johanna Schartau, and Henrik Wejfeldt. Their works revolve around issues of representation, norms, equality, identity, exclusion, place, belonging, history, and the future. The project is carried out by the Center for Photography with the support of Region Skåne.

Read more about (Centrum) and the other exhibitions in the project here.