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The midwife’s archives are the collections of Elsy Salomonsson: hundreds of brochures, photos and personal notes that she collected, wrote, and kept from her time working as a Swedish midwife in Tunisia in the 1970s.
Being a midwife in Tunisia in the 1970s meant being at the center of what was considered to be a key in the shaping of the Modern Tunisian woman, and of the modern nation: family planning. Elsy’s collected brochures, clinical material and newspaper cuts, allow us to dive into the discourse and imagery around women’s bodies, sexuality and reproduction, an ideal of the modern family, and how it was represented as the condition for the prosperity and development of the newly independent nation.
Samira Bouabana is a Swedish-Tunisian graphic designer, educator, publisher and director. Based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her design practice spans across a wide range of areas: design commissions, self initiated projects, book publishing, lecturing and teaching. Founder of design studio Hjärta Smärta (2001–2011) and design history project Hall of Femmes (2009–), publisher of, so far, ten books about women designers. Between 2014 and 2024 she was a senior lecturer and program director of the Visual communication program at Beckmans College of Design. Since 2024 she is the director of The Cell, a space for life science and art.
Mayssa Rekhis is an anthropologist, medical doctor, and writer, born in Tunis. She lived and worked in Tunis, Amman, Paris, Lisbon, Brussels, Stockholm, and Gothenburg. She has more than 15 years of experience working in the non-profit sector and in academia, on issues related to mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, global health, and migration. She is interested in the links between health equity, well-being and social justice.
Edith Ekström is a Swedish graphic designer based in Stockholm. She holds a BFA in graphic design and illustration from Konstfack University and Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She runs her own design practice focusing on commissions within the cultural field. Other than that she also works with self initiated projects, often based on themes connected to publishing, archiving and memory.
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