Surviving the landscape

2019 – ongoing project

Photography, text, video, exhibited in various forms

In the summer of 2019, I initiated the project Surviving the Landscape. I photographed and filmed in various locations across northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland. I collaborated with actors and used my own presence in video performance. Since then, the project has continued through the places I visit and live in. I am interested in how the gaze upon both my own body and the landscape changes over time.

I search for structures and colors that already function as painting: the compositions of stones, the lines of cliffs. I consider the landscape as an already finished abstract work, a painting that does not need me, yet one I attempt to enter.

Depicting landscapes is always an exercise of power. Every image is a statement: this is nature, defined by my gaze. I place both my own body and those of others within the landscape. The body becomes a measure, an element that either blends in or breaks away.

Cold, heat, height, and depth are as much actors as the body itself. When the body meets the stone, the question arises: who adapts, who yields, who survives?
It is both an aesthetic and existential system, where we are always guests, always exposed, always responsible.