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alex/alexandra sofie jönsson


is a socially engaged artist working with queer, eco-feminist and pedagogical formats, exploring how artistic practice can become a site for collective labour that incorporates multimodal forms of knowledge. Often working in response to institutional spaces and contexts, and often collaborating with communities as part of their practice.

They have previously shown work at Art Center Nabi, Lewisham Hospital, Tate Modern, Kunsthal NORD and Roskilde Festival. They are one of the co-founders of lím collective, a platform based in Aalborg exploring artistic practices at the intersections of health and care, and a former organiser of Goldsmiths University collective The Open System Association, Autonomous Tech Fetish (ATF), and The Body Recovery Unit.


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Diagnostics





Diagnostics (2017)
Workshop, Alexandra Jönsson & Loes Bogers
Photo: Alexandra Jönsson





Diagnostics (2017) is a data collage workshop model developed with Loes Bogers with the support of the Visual Methodologies Collective toolkit. The project started as an experiment in finding out how online databases see and organise the reproductive body. By analysing 6000+ images captured from Twitter shared around pregnancy, a series of tools to uncover the themes underlying online visual cultures were deployed. Putting focus on the often damaging gender normative messages and images circulating social media – participants are invited to destroy digitally scraped images, and reassemble the visual material in new stories and images rethinking beauty, capitalism, porn, pregnancy and baby advice, and family types.

The Diagnostics workshop was at Art Center Nabi (SKR, 2017), Ampika 3 Westminster University (UK, 2018), Tate Modern (UK, 2019), Oxytocin by Procreate (UK, 2019). 

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