Interruptions

Interruptions portrays several generations of women from Swedish Sápmi. The manner in which the Sámi people of Sweden have been treated since the 16th century when the Swedish state began colonising the north is a dark chapter in the country’s history. Colonisation does not only affect geographic areas – fundamental characteristics of a people such as its culture, language and traditions are also dismantled and eradicated. Many of the portrayed women bear their own stories of illness, conflicts or other individual hardships. Cooper & Gorfer’s multifaceted portraits weave together fragments from a collective history with present day experience of the individual woman.