Perspective: Haunting photographs from a mysterious community in a rural Swedish valley
Maja Daniels. Image from"Elf Dalia" . . Courtesy the artist and MACK.)
One of the first things you will notice upon opening “Elf Dalia” is there are very few words of description, save for an excerpt about the place you are about to see from a Swedish tourism book from 1926 and a poem called “Myriadmouth” by Andrea Lundgren. On further exploration, you will notice this book is both haunting and mysterious. It is a visual exploration of a unique community of people living in the Swedish valley of Alvdalen.
In 1668 events in Alvdalen sparked the birth of the Swedish witch-hunts, when 20 women and one man were executed on the basis of testimonies provided by witnesses who were mainly children. The first witch-story involved a girl from Älvdalen called Gertrud who had been reported for walking on water, a story which later spread via a famous illustration, first to Germany and then further afield to Salem, Massachusetts.
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