| | | | | | | | | Family Portraits XVI, 2020 © Inka and Niclas | | | | | | Luminous Matter | | | | 16 March – 22 May 2021 | | | | Artist Talk: 1 May 2021, 5pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Luminous Matter III, 2020 © Inka & Niclas | | | | | | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery presents the exhibition Luminous Matter by Inka & Niclas. Throughout their work, the artist duo has investigated our contemporary perception of nature through the photographic medium.
In their latest works, Inka & Niclas continue their examination of nature as a cultural construct, but the focus now lies on milieus connected to the artists own childhood and heritage – a partly introspective approach with a micro/macro perspective, coherent with a current universal strive towards understanding and being close to one´s local habitat.
The exhibition consists of works from the three individual artwork series Luminous Matter, Family Portraits and Liquify, that the artist duo has worked on simultaneously. The title Luminous Matter points far out in cosmos and eternity, contrasting the fragile, shortlived flowers. By throwing retro-reflective powder into the scene and illuminating it with the flashgun, the artists superimpose an explosion of glowing particles resembling popular space imagery or an exploding nebula from the NASA archives. The traces of the powder emphasize and highlight the delicate structures that otherwise go unnoticed and navigate the chaos that makes up ordinary roadside vegetation.
Abstracting the ordinary and enabling tools to the photographic image and its psychological mechanisms have been an important feature throughout Inka & Niclas’ work. In the photographic sculpture-series Liquify, the seemingly collapsed photographs have been placed on the wall, as if wet towels hung to dry. Their glass-like surface suggests materiality more alluring than the mundane shape. It appears gravity has decided their form. A complete understanding of the medium proves to be difficult, as the objects are substantially manipulated into new materia in their own right.
Family Portraits is a collection of self-portraits taken during the artist’s travels to idyllic panoramic settings across the world. The series is a continuous long-term project where the initial romantic scenery has turned into darker settings over time, like a suggestive crime scene in a Scandinavian Noir novel. It is a continuous investigation of how we perceive and save our memory of nature through the mediated picture, but also how we use the mediation of nature for self-identification.
Excerpt from the exhibition text Luminous Matter by Olga Krzeszowiec Malmsten | | | | | | | | | | Liquify / Luminous Matter V, 2020 © Inka & Niclas | | | | | | | Inka & Niclas Lindergård (*1985, Finland & *1984, Sweden) is an awarded artist duo who works primarily with photography-based art. The artists works together since 2007 and live in Stockholm, Sweden. They studied photography at the Gamleby Fotoskola (2005–2007) and the Norden Fotoskola Biskops Arnö (2004–2005) in Sweden. Their works have been exhibited and published internationally with participation in more than 30 exhibitions in the last years – inter alia at the Centrum för Fotografi in Stockholm, Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Museum der Westküste in Föhr, PhEST Festival Internationale di Fotografia e Arte in Monopoli and Photo Basel. They were also nominated to Foam Paul Huf Award (2012) and Emop Arendt Award (2020) and granted by the Swedish Author’s Fund (2013, 2017) and Swedish Arts Committee (2014, 2020). | | | | | | | | | | Luminous Matter I, 2019 © Inka & Niclas | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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