Image: Torstein Olav Eriksen
Join our team for an English language tour of the current exhibition in our basement gallery, Hidden Mothers - August 16, 15:00.
How do emerging technologies change how we make images, who gets represented in them, and how we see ourselves as a society? Long before digital cameras, smartphones, and AI image generators transformed visual culture, early photography presented revealing challenges about social visibility and erasure.
This exhibition offers an opportunity to examine both a historic moment in photographic technology and to consider ourselves, reflecting on how today's perspective shapes what we see when we look at the past. What do our interpretations of the shadowy figures supporting another era's children reveal about our assumptions regarding motherhood, labor, and visibility in the digital age?