At the intersection of myth and memory, you’ll find the work of Cooper & Gorfer. They are an artistic duo whose collaborative vision is as layered and intimate as the women they photograph. Over the past two decades, Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer have developed a language all their own through textiles, collages, and staged photography.
In Hysteria, their recent exhibit at Fotografiska Berlin, the pair asks the questions: Who are we when the world is in flux? What parts of ourselves do we bury to be accepted, to feel safe, to survive? Through their work, they try to answer those questions and reframe what ‘hysteria,’ a word historically weaponized to pathologize women’s emotions, can mean.
