The exhibition I am Silver by Lotta Antonsson presents art works from different periods that deal with the search for one’s own or constructed identity. The title of the exhibition is based on the poem The Mirror (1960) by Sylvia Plath, who, like Lotta Antonsson, uses mirror symbolism as a metaphor for a search for identity. While experiencing the conflict between rejection and acceptance of the definition of identity and autonomous perception of the ’self‘ and the ‚other‘, both strive for self-knowledge by refuting the objectified identity imposed on them by society.

The installation Paths to Inner Power (Fibonacci calculations) follows the mathematical principle of the golden ratio in its spatial arrangement. The optical and physical perception is influenced by the choreographed arrangement of the objects in the exhibition space. In the process, conscious references are made to the world of thoughts and ideas on archetypes from psychoanalysts such as Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology.
Based on the aesthetics of the 1960s and 1970s – a time of social upheaval – Lotta Antonsson complements vintage photographs from her archives of fashion and erotic magazines such as Twen, Das Magazine and Playboy with natural materials in her collages. She examines the historical and photographic representation and stereotyping of female bodies and the male gaze under formal and psychological aspects.

Lotta Antonsson (*1963) belongs to a generation of artists who emerged in the early 1990s and addressed the objectification of women and the search for identity with irony and selfdistance. She explores the limits of photography and experiments with different materials by complementing photographs with natural objects such as stones, coral, and shells. She studied fine arts and photography in Stockholm and Copenhagen and was a professor of photography at the Academy of Photography in Gothenburg.