I will find a way or make my own.
A socio-art project by Molly Marina
COPENHAGEN / 2023
EDITION N° 01
EDITION N° 01
100 faces.
What is power?
A portrait shows a face. A story opens a world. Meet 100 women and explore what strength might mean to you.
100 portraits · 100 perspectivesPhotography · stories · dialogue
AN INVITATION TO LOOK AGAIN
A hundred women.
Different lives. Unequal conditions.
No single definition of power.
COPENHAGEN / 2023 · 100 PORTRAITS
Who will you meet today?
Enter through a name, a question, a colour, or a chance encounter.
Well, you get what you settle for. – Thelma & Louise
Remember to celebrate both your successes and failures - you learn from both.
Be that girl who wakes up with purpose and intent. Be that girl who shows up and NEVER gives up. Be that girl who believes anything is possible and is will…
If I had one hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem, and 5 minutes thinking about the solution. - Albert Einstein
The changes won't come if we wait for another person or another time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the changes we seek. - Obama
Properly used, life is long enough. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To have a big impact, new solutions need to be rolled out on a large scale.
I never loose –I either win or learn. - Nelson Mandela
Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything - Marilyn Monroe
Go figure out something!
Stay Wild!
Thematic selections follow words in the original texts. They are paths into the stories, not labels for people.
A MOMENT FOR YOU
Look at her.
Look a little inward.
Art comes alive in the encounter with you. Take a question with you, or leave yourself a thought.
QUESTION 01 / 05
When did you feel strong without having to prove anything?
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THE PROJECT IN MOTION
Before the next portrait,
change the way you look.
Faces become stories. Stories become encounters. Step into the world of the exhibition.
Open the exhibition playlist ↗
Loads the original film from Vimeo only when you choose to watch.
EDITORIALS / 01 / 02 / 03
Ideas to take with you.
Three questions the portraits cannot settle for us.
Is power a mindset, or a position?
Molly’s original reflection places mindset at the centre of empowerment. The participants’ stories make that proposition worth testing. Phaedria describes navigating exclusion; Anja writes about creating the conditions in which a team can learn. Determination matters in both accounts, but it does not act alone. Access, expectations and the decisions of other people shape what becomes possible. An exhibition about power becomes more interesting when it lets those forces remain visible. What can a change of mind accomplish? And what still requires a change in the room?
Phaedria St Hilaire ↗Who can afford to fail?
Anja’s selected quote asks us to celebrate failure as well as success. It is an invitation to learn, but also a question for the people who design our workplaces: are the consequences of failure equally bearable for everyone? Her own account moves from personal responsibility to the work of helping a team develop. That shift matters. A generous attitude to our own mistakes is valuable; making it possible for someone else to make one is a different exercise of power. The portrait offers no universal answer. It gives us a specific place to begin.
Anja Lisborg ↗Being yourself is not a solo act.
Amalie describes bringing her whole self to work and making room for others to do the same. The second part is easy to lose when authenticity becomes a personal slogan. Being visible takes place in a social setting: someone listens, someone sets expectations, someone decides what belongs. Her insistence on presence asks something practical of the viewer. Before encouraging another person to speak freely, what could you change about the way you receive them? The encounter becomes meaningful when attention is more than admiration.
Amalie Lange ↗THE WORK BEHIND THE ENCOUNTER
From a city square.
To your perspective.
2023.
In October 2023, Molly Marina’s portraits stood in Copenhagen’s City Hall Square. Each woman appeared with her portrait, her words, and a way into her story.
The encounter continues here. Photography, words, personal symbols and music invite us to talk about gender, diversity and power. A hundred different ways of being human.
Read the story of the project ↗Portraits and participant texts from the 2023 edition. Lives, roles and workplaces may have changed since then.