2013 Portfolio Prize Runner Up: Eva Stenram

In Eva Stenram’s Drape series, arms and legs peek playfully, provocatively from behind billowing curtains whose vintage aesthetic and color schemes are reminiscent of mid-century elegance. Using found photographs from the 1950s and ’60s, Stenram complicates the domestic pinup portrait by turning backdrop into barrier; challenges the notions of the erotic and fetishistic; and blurs the line between public and private space.

Look out for Aperture magazine’s Fall 2013 issue, which will feature a portfolio of Stenram’s Drape photographs with an introduction by Lucy Soutter.

Eva Stenram was born in Stockholm and currently lives and works in London. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2003, Stenram has exhibited internationally; she has been included in shows at the V&A Museum, London; Seoul Museum of Art; Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum; and Zendai Museum of Modern Art, China. In 2012, Stenram was nominated for the Les Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award. In 2013, she has solo exhibitions at Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England, and is a finalist for the Hyeres International Photography Competition and the Aperture Portfolio Prize.