Diafragma
Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard
Nominated by
Fotogalleriet

Diafragma (Published by Multipress) is a photographic book project that asks whether photography can give form to what cannot be directly seen — the invisible structures and tensions that run through natural cycles, female cycles and life cycles. The project examines how lived experience accumulates in the body over time, through breath, rhythm and internal movement.
Grounded in an ecological mode of thinking, the work understands the body as inseparable from its environment, shaped by biological processes, social expectations and generational inheritance. Particular attention is given to the female body and to questions of vulnerability, endurance and the negotiation of space.
The photographs move between details of the body, elements from the natural world and
domestic interiors, approaching these motifs without hierarchy. Rather than constructing a linear narrative, the work operates through repetition, variation and pauses, reflecting cyclical rather than progressive time.
Diafragma is realised as a tactile and open photographic book. The title refers to the
diaphragm muscle, understood both as a physiological structure and as a conceptual site where emotional, physical and environmental forces intersect.
The Artist

Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard
Nominated in
2026
By
Fotogalleriet
Lives and Works in
Oslo
Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard is a Norwegian photographer and artist working across
photography, installation, and writing. With a background in documentary photography and material-based art, her practice explores the tension between control and release, and between belonging and distance.
Rooted in a rural upbringing, her work examines how emotional experience, labour, and
inherited expectations shape the body and leave physical and sensory traces over time.
Moving between close observation and introspection, she investigates how history, care, and responsibility are carried—both individually and across generations. Through tactile, often spatial approaches, Luksengard seeks to slow down perception and create spaces for reflection, where presence, vulnerability, and memory can coexist.
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