{"id":1596,"date":"2009-08-24T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2009-08-24T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:45:40","slug":"installation-by-elisabeth-ohlson-wallin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/installation-by-elisabeth-ohlson-wallin\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Installation By Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were Queen Kristina (1626 &#8211; 1689), King Karl XII (1697 &#8211; 1718) \u00a0and King Gustav III (1746 &#8211; 1792)\u00a0of Sweden as\u00a0straight as the history books tell us? The sexual preferences of these regents have been discussed for hundreds of years, &#8211; lately by\u00a0quite a lot\u00a0of gay people.<\/p>\n<p>The regent is an ikon, an archetypical symbol of power and gender, and as hetero sexuality has been the social norm of Northern Europe for hundreds of years, it has been projected upon these historical persons. The true story (what ever it was&#8230;) has been forgotten in favour of a greater archetypical story generated by the sexual trends. All kings and queens are &#8216;born&#8217; as hetero sexual archetypes.<\/p>\n<p><code><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1597 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/elisabeth_pressbild_s.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin\" width=\"149\" height=\"200\" \/>Photo installation by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin<\/code><br \/>\nSwedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin questions the way these three regents are portrayed in the history books and she has made a photo installation with queer portraits of Queen Kristina, King Karl XII and King Gustav III of Sweden. Looking back at history she asks the question: Who is &#8216;normal&#8217; and who is &#8216;queer&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Elisabeth&#8217;s installation is on display at the Arm\u00e9museum in Stockholm. It can be seen at until October 31, 2009 at Arm\u00e9museum, Riddargatan 13, Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Queen Kristina of Sweeden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Drottning-Kristina_445px.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Kristina of Sweeden\" width=\"445\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Queen Kristina and Ebba Sparre<\/em>, photo by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"King Karl XII of Sweden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Karl-XII_445px.jpg\" alt=\"King Karl XII of Sweden\" width=\"445\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>King Karl XII with a soldier<\/em>, photo by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, 2009<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"King Gustav III of Sweden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Gustav-III_445px.jpg\" alt=\"King Gustav III of Sweden\" width=\"445\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>King Gustav III with a page<\/em>, photo by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were Queen Kristina (1626 &#8211; 1689), King Karl XII (1697 &#8211; 1718) \u00a0and King Gustav III (1746 &#8211; 1792)\u00a0of Sweden as\u00a0straight as the history books tell us? The sexual preferences of these regents have been discussed for hundreds of years, &#8211; lately by\u00a0quite a lot\u00a0of gay people. The regent is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-elisabeth-ohlson-wallin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}