Scenes from an Island
It is a utopian dream to co-exist in harmony with nature, a relationship that is both contradictory and exclusive. The overarching theme is the human condition of displacement and transience played out against Ingmar Bergman’s barren cinematic landscape on the remote island of Fårö, Sweden. I staged scenarios; sans figures and with figures transitioning through the frame, to explore the elemental conditions of landscape — bodies contrasted with the desolate topography — the mountains, the earth, the water, and the air.
In a society where neutrality, secularism, and individualism rule, the relationship to nature is almost religious as a way of finding connection. The exhibition was shown at Fotografiska New York, at Bergmancenter, Sweden, and at the National Museum of Finland.
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