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more sketches
May 27, 2009
Published on personal blog
After working on the text I realized I need a new photograph, so I went back to Hisingen Park to shoot some new pictures.
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May 27, 2009
Published on personal blog
After working on the text I realized I need a new photograph, so I went back to Hisingen Park to shoot some new pictures.
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sketches
May 27, 2009
Published on personal blog
At the moment I’m working on the layout of the text and the image of one of the contributions. The text is about an artificial forest that was being built near Delft, The Netherlands in the mid nineties.
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May 27, 2009
Published on personal blog
At the moment I’m working on the layout of the text and the image of one of the contributions. The text is about an artificial forest that was being built near Delft, The Netherlands in the mid nineties.
continue reading...
This land is a land and a land and a land
Year: 2010
Material: photographs and texts
Size: variable
Produced with generous support from The Prins Berhard Cultuurfonds and Otto and Charlotte Mannheimer Fond
Material: photographs and texts
Size: variable
Produced with generous support from The Prins Berhard Cultuurfonds and Otto and Charlotte Mannheimer Fond
concept
'This land is a land and a land and a land' is a continuing project in which I invite people who moved to Sweden to take me to a landscape that reminds them of their country of origin. Together we photograph that Swedish landscape. The photo is juxtaposed to a text in which the contributors describe the landscape from their country of origin.
As such, a photograph from Göteborg can be juxtaposed to, for instance, a text about Mexico City.
Background
‘This land is a land and a land and a land’ is a project that deals with the relation between landscape and identity. It implicates the results of cultural diversification on the perception of our surroundings. In a time when national identities increasingly blur in the flux of globalization and often become subject of social conflict, landscape can easily be understood as a place that is resilient to those changes in society. After all, these mountains, forests, islands and rivers have always been the same and can symbolize a kind of Swedishness that is arrested in time. But landscape is also where people live, and if that place disseminates a notion of identity that is not representative for the people who inhabit it, than essentially that place is not their home. ‘This land is a land and a land and a land’ attempts to open up the question of what our surroundings mean to a multitude of interpretations. Rather than framing the meaning of landscape in the narrow and problematic terms of national identity, the project explores it as a place where cultural difference is mediated and practiced.
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Background
‘This land is a land and a land and a land’ is a project that deals with the relation between landscape and identity. It implicates the results of cultural diversification on the perception of our surroundings. In a time when national identities increasingly blur in the flux of globalization and often become subject of social conflict, landscape can easily be understood as a place that is resilient to those changes in society. After all, these mountains, forests, islands and rivers have always been the same and can symbolize a kind of Swedishness that is arrested in time. But landscape is also where people live, and if that place disseminates a notion of identity that is not representative for the people who inhabit it, than essentially that place is not their home. ‘This land is a land and a land and a land’ attempts to open up the question of what our surroundings mean to a multitude of interpretations. Rather than framing the meaning of landscape in the narrow and problematic terms of national identity, the project explores it as a place where cultural difference is mediated and practiced.
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Click picture to see slideshow