Vendredi 07 Novembre 2014 16:48:25 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Technology may dictate our future, but art still has the ability to push the medium of photography; it still has the ability to challenge ideas of time, space and fragility. In this show by Copenhagen-based artists Louise Bøgelund Saugmann and Jenny Nordquist, photography doesn’t depict the literate or the tangible. It explores an abstract perception of the space we occupy and the moment we live in. A moment that will cease to exist.


Technology may dictate our future, but art still has the ability to push the medium of photography; it still has the ability to challenge ideas of time, space and fragility. In this show by Copenhagen-based artists Louise Bøgelund Saugmann and Jenny Nordquist, photography doesn’t depict the literate or the tangible. It explores an abstract perception of the space we occupy and the moment we live in. A moment that will cease to exist.


In Leaving No Shadow In The Mirror, Jenny Nordquist creates photographs using hand-coloured glass plates from the 19th century. The plates - originally used as slides in magic lantern projectors - depict an imposing and incredible nature. Man’s quest for mastery is visible with every pick axe that pierces the raw glaciers and the barren landscapes. It exposes our instinct to explore, to discover and to extend our perspective to new horizons. But it also speaks to something more fleeting and fragile. Our ambitions and desires prevail, but the images are fading. The silver emulsion on the glass plate is dissolving, mimicking a trickle of soot slowly eroding the glacial scenery. Nordquist has layered the images to create a more fragmented and abstract landscape, one that is altered by human intervention and doomed by decay. The translucent glass plates also become a mirror of human existence in which we can see our desires reflected but where no shadow will be left.

© Louise Bøgelund Saugmann




© Jenny Nordquist