In Process
Connective, intimate, and practical conversations with emerging artists and their creative practices. In Process is a show dedicated to supporting new artists and sharing their experiences of navigating the art world. It's rooted in the belief that artists are stronger, more creative, and more intelligent in community than in competition.
In Process
Emelie Victoria: Forests, Correspondence, and the Art of Gifting
We kick Season 2 off with Emelie Victoria, a photographer and visual anthropologist investigating human and non-human relationships in Swedish forests. Emelie leads us through the ethical woods of working with different communities and introduces us to the term correspondence. Developed by anthropologist Tim Ingold from his work with the indigenous Sámi people, correspondence refers broadly to the idea of reciprocity and shared exchange within any sort of relationship: I give, you give, we change together. In the context of an art practice, this gives rise to intriguing possibilities such as conceiving of art as an act of gift-giving. Join us for a cozy and deeply-felt return to 2025 that will be of particular interest to any listeners considering an MFA, collaboration or artistic research.
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Artist Biography
Emelie Victoria is a photographer, researcher and multimedia storyteller currently based in Sweden. She was born 1997 in Edeby, Värmland in Sweden, but now the regions around Klarälven, Zambezi and Thames all feel like some sort of home. They like learning, relating, doing and undoing through explorative exchange and ethnography. Climate justice, critical and queer ecology, (sub)cultures, regenerative methods, care and belonging are some themes she likes to write and work around. They have worked in-house with content, campaigns and reporting for Amnesty International Sweden and United Nations Development Programme Zimbabwe. Having achieved an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths University, London, she is now approaching film and photography as a means to do research about their surroundings and tell stories with depth, contradiction and nuance.
IG Handles
Show: @inprocess__show
Emelie: @emelievictoria
Timimie Marak: @timimiemarak
Willow: @indexthumb
Arswain: @arswain__
Texts & Links
A Trilogy of New Indigenous Writing (2020), various authors
Correspondence as Care (2024), Emelie Isaksen
Emelie’s Website
Ressemblage (1982),Trin T. Minh-ha
Correspondences (2020), Tim Ingold
Vem Är Du Som Bor Här? (2020), Fani Sjödahl & Alva Jeppsson
Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), Robin Kimmerer