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Blog: GoSee loves ! Cooper & Gorfer 'Between These Folded Walls, Utopia' - soon at FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK

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SOON AT FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK : In a series of richly-imagined portraits, the artistic duo Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer explore the idea of Utopia in the age of the new diaspora. Young women who have been forced to uproot their lives are photographed like goddesses inside lustrous and surrealist-inspired sets. These vivid portraits are a judicious and of-the-moment examination of our historical memory and possibility. “Between These Folded Walls, Utopia” will open at Fotografiska New York soon.

“We felt drawn to a new diaspora, the young generation of women whose lives had been influenced by forced migration and a need for a new place to live. These are adolescents on the cusp of adulthood who have experienced what it means to uproot their reality and sense of self. Young women who grew up with different cultural understandings of the world. They are women in different stages of independence and gender equality and who, because of that, are less rigidly defined, less prone to accept a readymade understanding of the world.” – Cooper & Gorfer

Cooper & Gorfer comprises the artists Sarah Cooper (US, 1974) and Nina Gorfer (Austria, 1979). Based on the stories and lives of the women they meet and collaborated with, Cooper & Gorfer explore issues of memory, migration, dislocation, and the malleability of identity.The artist duo are known for their distinct hybrid portraits. Their photo-based collages are anchored in an anthropological research of people and place. Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer reimagine the tradition of portraiture by visually examining and deconstructing the narrative of those they portray. Like art history’s Mannerists and Surrealists, Cooper & Gorfer strain observable reality through a complex psychological filter of memories, moods and wounds. Cooper & Gorfer began their collaboration in 2006. They live and work in Gothenburg, Sweden.
 
IMAGE // Cooper & Gorfer 'Between These Folded Walls, Utopia' at FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK
IMAGE // Cooper & Gorfer 'Between These Folded Walls, Utopia' at FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK
IMAGE // Cooper & Gorfer 'Between These Folded Walls, Utopia' at FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK
IMAGE // Cooper & Gorfer 'Between These Folded Walls, Utopia' at FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK
IMAGE // Cooper & Gorfer 'Between These Folded Walls, Utopia' at FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK
 
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