EXPOSED - exhibition
EXPOSED is a collection of images I have been working on for a few years. Some of them has been published in social media before, but it’s the first time these are printed and presented as a whole in an exhibition.
My main concern during the last decades have been the preservation of the unexposed landscape. I have seen the changes come for a long time. How the fragile arctic landscape has been worn down and altered, how economical growth seems to be the main goal in all the new and traditional professions along the coast. I have seen how the number of species have lessened and how the ecosystem is about to collapse. We can’t go on like this any longer. We all know that, but it’s so hard to do something about it.
In my latest book MY LAND, Im trying to show the extraordinary in the ordinary. I want us to slow down and actually see whats in front of and around us.
There is done a lot of research on the impact the untouched landscape has on human beings. Compared to many other kinds of activities, just being in nature, without any agenda except just to exist, is one of the most effective and powerful ways to be regenerated.
In EXPOSED I show my attraction to the barren and exposed landscapes of Iceland and North Norway. My concern is still the same: how to protect the unexposed landscape as a resource for life now, and the future. There is an energy in the images of dessert and rocks that has always fired my imagination and inspired my creativity. I feel I can read the nerve system of the landscape when I visit such places. It’s more demanding and less accessible landscapes, but the beauty is unsurpassed.
Hopefully I can be able to share some of the fascination of these landscapes with you.
The exhibition will be presented in Vågan Kunstforening in Svolvær. (www.svolvarkunst.no)
The opening hours is:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 12-15
Thursdays: 12-19
The Adress is : Sentrumsgården, Sivert Nilsens gate 26, Svolvær
You are welcome to the opening of the exhibition on June 15. at 13:00
Iceland
Norway