Over the past five years, Norwegian artist Fin Serck-Hanssen has followed and documented the gender confirmation journey of close friend Hedda, who in her early twenties traveled from Oslo to Buenos Aires and Bangkok to undergo cosmetic surgery and vaginoplasty.
The images taken by Fin Serck-Hanssen and Hedda are made in collaboration to construct a complex portrait of the physical and psychological changes in a young person's life, and show with unflinching honesty the realities of Hedda's confirmation, surgeries and recovery.
This work reflects on the construction of identity in the 21st century, mixing her selfies and the curation of an online identity with Fin Serck-Hanssen's tender yet direct portrait of her most vulnerable moments. The book also bears traces of this identity in the making: dark, almost imperceptible images, heavy with overprinted black ink, show traces of photographs of those Hedda has chosen not to reveal of herself. Hedda concludes with a short story of immersive fiction by novelist Genevieve Hudson, exploring ideas of ambiguity, transition and change; color photos.
Loose Joints, 2021
134 pages
23.5 × 32.5 cm
ISBN: 9781912719266
Over the past five years, Norwegian artist Fin Serck-Hanssen has followed and documented the gender confirmation journey of close friend Hedda, who in her early twenties traveled from Oslo to Buenos Aires and Bangkok to undergo cosmetic surgery and vaginoplasty.
The images taken by Fin Serck-Hanssen and Hedda are made in collaboration to construct a complex portrait of the physical and psychological changes in a young person's life, and show with unflinching honesty the realities of Hedda's confirmation, surgeries and recovery.
This work reflects on the construction of identity in the 21st century, mixing her selfies and the curation of an online identity with Fin Serck-Hanssen's tender yet direct portrait of her most vulnerable moments. The book also bears traces of this identity in the making: dark, almost imperceptible images, heavy with overprinted black ink, show traces of photographs of those Hedda has chosen not to reveal of herself. Hedda concludes with a short story of immersive fiction by novelist Genevieve Hudson, exploring ideas of ambiguity, transition and change; color photos.
Loose Joints, 2021
134 pages
23.5 × 32.5 cm
ISBN: 9781912719266
