Kerstin Hamilton
About Kerstin Hamilton
Kerstin Hamilton is an artist and artistic researcher. Her PhD research project The Objectivity Laboratory: Propositions on Documentary Photography explored how materialities and processes are visualized using a camera, exploring the photographer’s reach both physically and ethically. With the aim of proposing how to move beyond some of the more incapacitating aspects of representational critique, it approached the concept of "situated objectivity" as a form of ethical, empathic and engaged objectivity. The research maps experimental approaches within contemporary documentary photography and discusses the relation between documentary, photography, post-truth politics and ethics.
In her art and research, Hamilton has explored the connections between the natural sciences and the field of photography: using the laboratory both physically and as a symbol, the image’s relation to reality is considered. Main outcomes of her work carried out in nanotechnology laboratories are the film Zero Point Energy (2016) which was part of The New Human exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Malmö and the two image/text/installation based artworks The Science Question in Feminism (2018) and A World Made by Science (2018) made for the 2018 Riga Biennal Of Contemporary Art. Her work has also been presented at the Riga International Biennial of Art (RIBOCA), Fotohof in Salzburg, Art Initiative, Stockholm School of Economics and Chalmers University of Technology among other venues.
Hamilton is the curator of the exhibition Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography at Hasselblad Center. The exhibition investigated how artists approach complex social and political realities in times of post-truth. Photography is in the exhibition applied as an experimental, inclusive and expanded medium. The exhibition presented artist’s works that insist upon the importance of seeing, knowing and reacting to the complexities and disorders characteristic of our time.
Link to Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography is available at the Hasselblad Foundation website.
To download the dissertation The Objectivity Laboratory: Propositions on Documentary Photography and access the artworks and curatorial work that the research contains, click here.
The film Zero Point Energy is available here.
Information about the work presented at the Riga Biennal Of Contemporary Art can be found here.
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The Objectivity Laboratory: Propositions on Documentary
Photography
Kerstin Hamilton
2022 -
Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography
(catalogue)
Kerstin Hamilton
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg - 2021 -
Dear Truth: Documentary Strategies in Contemporary
Photography
Kerstin Hamilton
Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg - 2021 -
A World Made by
Science
Kerstin Hamilton
The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA). Curatorial concept: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. Chief curator: Katerina Gregos - 2018 -
The Science Question in
Feminism
Kerstin Hamilton
The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA). Curatorial concept: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. Chief curator: Katerina Gregor - 2018 -
A World Made by Science: Experimental Documentary
Strategies
Kerstin Hamilton
The International Research Symposium: Interwar Lens Cultures - Photography and Film in Transition 1919-1939 - 2018 -
Exploring Experimental Documentary in Sites of
Nanotechnology
Kerstin Hamilton
AHA-festivalen at Chalmers University of Technology - 2018 -
Experimental Documentary in Nanosocieties
II
Kerstin Hamilton
Helsinki Photomedia 2018 - 2018 -
Subjektiv
Objektiv
Kerstin Hamilton
Objektiv - 2017 -
Nanosamhällen
Kerstin Hamilton
Verk tidskrift - 2017 -
Experimental Documentary in
Nanosocieties
Kerstin Hamilton
the Artistic Research Week at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, within the Nordic Artistic Research Consortium (NARC) - 2017 -
Människan och
maskinen
Kerstin Hamilton
Vetenskapsfestivalen - 2017 -
Zero Point
Energy
Kerstin Hamilton
Moderna Museet, Malmö, part of the exhibition The New Human: Knock, Knock is Anyone Home? (Opened 2016-02-26) A-Venue, Gothenburg, part of the exhibition The Research Show and talk. (Opened 2016-04-06) Moderna Museet, Stockholm, part of the exhibition The New Human. (Opened 2016-05-20) Chalmers University of Technology, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Areas of Advance, Uddevalla, screening and talk (2016-08-23) Galleri Format, Malmö, part of the exhibition Floating Point. (Opened 2016-11-12) Art Division, Stockholm School of Economics, exhibition and lunch talk. (Opened 2016-12-05) - 2016 -
The String of
Pearls
Kerstin Hamilton
Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland and Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria - 2015 -
Nanosamhällen
Kerstin Hamilton
Tekniska museet, Stockholm, Sweden and presentations at a selection of secondary and high schools in Västra Götalandsregionen - 2015 -
The Hambantota Connection: Constructing landscapes, contesting
modernity
Kerstin Hamilton, Jonas Lindberg, Karl Palmås
2014