Participants
(she/her · b. 2002)
Matilda Carter, born in 2002 in Ireland and raised on Öland, works with performance, video, and installation. These different media interact to create scenes in which the body, costume, and action are woven together into a unified whole. The costumes Carter creates function as extensions of the body—forms that, in turn, act and drive the work forward during a performance or video recording.
Early on, Carter was inspired by artists such as Yoko Ono and Marina Abramović, whose work with instructions, rituals, and physical trials has been of great significance to her practical and conceptual development. Carter continues to create score-based works that explore human behavior, social rituals, and the norms that govern our actions—both what is visible and what lies beneath the surface.
Carter often creates scenes that, in combination with the form and materiality of the costume, can be interpreted as dystopian. These environments reflect contemporary anxieties and function as displaced versions of our own reality—not as pure fantasies, but as amplifications of something already present.
Materials play a central role in Carter’s practice. Latex can be both soft and sensual while simultaneously evoking something uncomfortably skin-like. Plaster shifts from a fluid state to cold hardness, and the malleability of fabric can become a second skin or a physical constraint. In the encounter between these materials and the body, new ways of understanding movement, limitation, and identity emerge. The materials become not just tools, but partners that shape the stage, the body, and the atmosphere that emerges.
Education
2018–2021 Aesthetics Program in Visual Arts and Design, Jenny Nyström School, high school in Kalmar
2021–2022 Psychology 1, Kristianstad University
2021–2022 Art 1, Munka Art School
2022–2023 Art 2, Munka Art School
2023–2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Royal Institute of Art
