Meanwhile Magdalene
María Elínardóttir

I made this project after finding a suitcase lying on the street for five days. I began meticulously documenting each item individually and soon realized what it was I was looking at. Through my window, about fifty meters away, is a parking lot, where I have seen young women hiding between cars, changing clothes and putting on lipstick.

They had these bags with them and they would climb into cars that passed by, leaving their bags hidden in bushes or under some branches. I gave her the name Magdalene and imagined what had happened to her, and soon I began somehow responding to her belongings with my own. (ME)

For the twentieth anniversary of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, three young festivals (Fotopub (SI), Goa Photo (IN), Joburg Photo (ZA)) have been invited to participate in our programming.

In collaboration with Fotopub (SI).

Year of production: 2014

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