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