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Astrid Jahnsen * 1972 in Pérou, lives in San Francisco and Lima

Astrid Jahnsen came to the realisation that there is no justice in her country. In Peru, she maintains, everyone has experienced the corruption, the fickleness of legal procedures and the lack of infrastructure, with women being the most exposed to these injustices that can go so far as rape. For her, the photo archive is a feminist weapon. The photographs of On Your Kneescome from 18 notebooks of pornographic photos from the 1930s and erotic texts. She carried out her daily work as [...]

Astrid Jahnsen came to the realisation that there is no justice in her country. In Peru, she maintains, everyone has experienced the corruption, the fickleness of legal procedures and the lack of infrastructure, with women being the most exposed to these injustices that can go so far as rape. For her, the photo archive is a feminist weapon. The photographs of On Your Kneescome from 18 notebooks of pornographic photos from the 1930s and erotic texts. She carried out her daily work as an iconographer on these images: scrutinising, changing the focal length, reframing, etc.

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