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Inspiration – Matilde Søes Rasmussen
Inspiration explores tensions and contradictions: between artist and muse, photographer and model, the body and her representation, fascination and ambiguity, observation and desire.
Artist : Matilde Søes Rasmussen
Series : Inspiration
Published by XYZ Books
As a former model, Rasmussen is deeply interested in how the female body has been commodified in both historical and contemporary visual representations, especially informed by her research on Audrey Munson, one of the earliest figures in the modeling industry.
Both muse and tragic archetype, Munson’s lingering presence in the artist’s work becomes a subversive inquiry—where the body, like a sculpture, serves as both a site of projection and resistance, shaped by external expectations yet asserting its own agency and presence.
Both photographer and photographed, artist and model, observer and observed, Rasmussen seeks to perform questions rather than answer them. Can one critique the beauty industry and systems of female representation by photographing them? Or does the act of documentation inevitably reinforce the very structures it seeks to question?
After fifteen years of working as a professional model, she explores the commodification of the body in image making and often appears simultaneously in front of and behind the camera. Her work moves freely between photography, poetry, and filmmaking.
She has participated in residencies at NARS Foundation in New York City, the International Writer‘s Workshop in Hong Kong, GlogauAiR in Berlin, AiR351 in Cascais, and has exhibited at Kunsthal Aarhus, Oblong, and Centrum För Fotografi, among others. She holds a BFA in Photography from HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg and is currently pursuing an MFA at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg (b. DK/1990).
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