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Trespass is a part of a long-term project: Girl, Battle. The project stems from my own experience as a committed handball athlete during my adolescent years. I had to leave the often violent sport at my physical peak age 17, when my body collapsed from overtraining. It took me years to recover, and I never returned, until now.
In revisiting the sport, place and young team with the eyes of an artist and adult, I explored the dynamics of team sport at this crucial age – between childhood and adult life. How is girlhood formed through such an experience in relation to achievement, pressure, intimacy and violence?
Through workshops, we dug into the details in moments of contact: attack or defence. By freezing those movements in order to take a photograph, we staged the images together, making our own choreography, to highlight the beauty and struggle within the sport and by choosing such aesthetics, raise a value to an ordinary team sport – without men.
© Sofia Runarsdotter
Sofia Runarsdotter is a documentary photographer, lecturer and videographer. She often uses her personal experience from the rural areas of northern Sweden as a starting point for her socially-engaged artistic projects. She holds a Masters in Fine Art degree from Konstfack (2022) and has studied at the Royal Institute of Art and Nordens Fotoskola.
© Sofia Runarsdotter