+ About the work

In Eva Stenram’s work bodies are often fragmented and fuse with their surroundings, camouflaging or becoming a part of an interior or landscape. In Home Town the body of a nude model has been partially covered by a new textile pattern constructed from the photographed fabric that the woman’s body rests upon. Home Town is part of a series of works, collectively titled Offcut, that reconfigures details from found vintage erotic photographs and renders them in a new, often material form.

+ About the artist

Eva Stenram (Stockholm/Berlin) frequently works with vintage erotica. She collects negatives, slides and men’s magazines from the post-war era; this collection has become both a source of inspiration and her raw working material. The photographs are sometimes scanned, sometimes re-photographed, and subsequently changed through digital, analogue or physical manipulation. Her work is ultimately about being a viewer, a consumer of images.

Stenram’s work has been exhibited worldwide, important exhibitions include Bodyfiction, A Handful of Dust curated by David Campany, and Home Sweet Home at the 2019 Rencontres d’Arles, Monochrome at Ravestijn Gallery and Die Bienale für Aktuelle Fotografie 2020, in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, Denmark and New Meridians at Literaturhaus in Berlin