Dea Trier Mørch – Winter Children (1976)

Louisiana poster with the work, Vinterbørn, (1976), by the Danish artist, Dea Trier Mørch, (1949-2001). For many who visited Louisiana's exhibition, Into the World, with Dea Trier Mørch's graphic works in 2019, it was a nostalgic reunion. For a younger generation it was new and eye-opening.

With the book Winter Children from 1976, and the images of births and women giving birth, Trier Mørch added a whole new dimension to a visual culture where this universal human condition has been astonishingly untold.

While death is a widespread theme in visual art, the very beginning of life is a motif that only gained greater artistic attention with feminism.

Trier Mørch began as a visual artist and was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts' painting school at the age of 16. She won the Golden Laurel for the novel, Winter Children, in 1976 and she co-founded the artist collective, Røde Mor, in 1969.