The Hulett Collection presents Masks & Myths, a selection of works by Vienna-based contemporary artist Emma Hartvig. Blending cinematic atmosphere with emotional intimacy, Hartvig’s photographs explore womanhood through a deeply personal and evocative lens. Moving fluidly between portraiture, allegory, and autobiography, her images inhabit a space where vulnerability, transformation, memory, and myth converge.
Throughout the exhibition, Hartvig examines the shifting identities of women through photographs that feel both timeless and immediate. Mothers, children, dancers, and swimmers appear suspended between reality and reverie, their bodies becoming vessels for tenderness, solitude, ritual, and quiet resilience. Whether working in stark black and white or luminous color, Hartvig creates images that possess a haunting softness while remaining grounded in lived experience.
At the heart of Masks & Myths is an exploration of the female gaze and the ways women are seen, remembered, and understood. Hartvig’s photographs resist spectacle in favor of emotional presence, inviting viewers into moments that feel intimate yet universal. The resulting body of work is both deeply contemporary and mythic in tone, offering meditations on motherhood, creativity, sensuality, and the emotional landscapes that shape female experience.
Emma Hartvig (b. 1990, Sweden) is an artist recognized for her striking photographic explorations of femininity, intimacy, and identity. Her work, deeply influenced by cinematic and theatrical elements, examines the interplay between solitude and connection—capturing moments that blur the line between the private and the public self. Her work has been exhibited in Milan, Vienna, London, Bratislava and the United States. Hartvig’s photography has been featured in L’Oeil de la Photographie, Musée Magazine, Fisheye Magazine, Die Zeit, and AnOther Magazine, among others.
Emma Hartvig : Masks & Myths
May 23 – June 27, 2026
The Hulett Collection
1311 E 15th St
Tulsa, OK 74120
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