Evolving / Eroding

The exhibition Evolving / Eroding shows work by the Indian and Danish art photographers: Amit Sheokand, Akshay Mahajan, Jagrut Raval, Miriam Nielsen, Jenny Nordquist and Louise Bøgelund Saugmann.

All artists have with their different personal approaches used photography to explore the concept of nature, taking Goa/India as a starting point for their works. For all participants nature is the most important source of inspiration. Nature should in this sense be understood as something that is not separated from us but rather part of us, and the motifs are concerned with both evolving and eroding aspects of nature. The exhibition includes a broad variety of works that employ various photographic techniques reflecting on both the photographic medium itself as well as the concept of nature. The photographs are manipulated, distorted, copied, staged and interpreted in various ways, and the works move from the abstract and intuitive to the more conceptual and investigative. With this exhibition we hope that the meeting between the artists and the artworks will contribute to new realizations, reflection and form the basis for debate on both the photographic media and our relationship with nature, whether we live in Denmark or India.

Jenny Nordquist alters and reconceptualize found hyalotypes from late 19th century to provoke new perspectives about photography, it’s fragility and relation to nature. In When Nature Vents Her Fury the depicted landscapes are of an imposing and incredible nature. They expose our instinct to explore, to discover and to extend our perspective to new horizons. But they also speak to something more fleeting and fragile.