Void, 2024. Edition of 900 copies. Cloth quarterbound + Foiled hardcover, 168 pp., b/w and color illustrated, 230 x 284 mm. Photographs by Maja Daniels.
In 1667 a 12-year-old girl, Gertrud Svensdotter, was accused of walking on water in Älvdalen, Sweden. This event marked the beginning of the Swedish witch-hunts, a period of mass hysteria and horror in Älvdalen and its neighbouring regions. The book ‘Gertrud’ by artist Maja Daniels uses photography to reconfigure the history and myth of these events, igniting a contemporary dialogue around Gertrud.