MARTINA HOOGLAND IVANOW – CIRCULAR WAIT
2016-10-17There is an unmistakable and highly personal inflection in Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s images emanating from their compact atmosphere and her distinctive way of dealing with shadowsand light. The images are characterized by a soft grey scale.These muted tones become a filter between the image and the viewer, a filter that also lends a sense of timelessness to the images.
In Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s most recent work, the series Circular Wait (2010–2014), she has focused on examining our oftentimes artificial and contradictory relationship with nature – a relationship that is largely about control. Like her series Satellite, Circular Wait proceeds from the longing for the authentic and wild that is fundamental to many subcultures that to a greater or lesser degree distance themselves from urban culture. Seeking to live in harmony with nature is often exclusive and only accessible to a select few. Other problematic dimensions include issues of sustainability and gender. The wilderness is not big enough for everyone to live in and warm themselves by an open fire, and, in most cases, a return to a more “original” life involves a return to more rigid gender roles.
Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2016
Grundemark Nilsson Gallery
Lindenstrasse 34
10969 Berlin
Germany
