The Hulett Collection is proud to present Masks & Myths, a selection of works by Vienna-based contemporary artist Emma Hartvig. Blending cinematic atmosphere with emotional intimacy, Hartvig’s photographs explore womanhood through a deeply personal and evocative lens. Moving fluidly between portraiture, allegory, and autobiography, her images inhabit a space where vulnerability, transformation, memory, and myth converge.
Throughout the exhibition, Hartvig examines the shifting identities of women through photographs that feel both timeless and immediate. Mothers, children, dancers, and swimmers appear suspended between reality and reverie, their bodies becoming vessels for tenderness, solitude, ritual, and quiet resilience. Whether working in stark black and white or luminous color, Hartvig creates images that possess a haunting softness while remaining grounded in lived experience.
At the heart of Masks & Myths is an exploration of the female gaze and the ways women are seen, remembered, and understood. Hartvig’s photographs resist spectacle in favor of emotional presence, inviting viewers into moments that feel intimate yet universal. The resulting body of work is both deeply contemporary and mythic in tone, offering meditations on motherhood, creativity, sensuality, and the emotional landscapes that shape female experience.
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A mother at home, 2020 © Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths
Amalie and her daughter, 2020 © Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths
Dandelions, 2025 © Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths
Drowse, 2023 © Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths
Untitled #13 from The Swimmers, 2017 © Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths
Ophelia, 2023 © Emma Hartvig: Masks & Myths
