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Land-scape: a conversation about place and memory with Thomas Millroth
What shapes our outer and inner landscape? How do they relate to each other, and how do they change over time? Meet art historian, critic, art curator, and author Thomas Millroth in a conversation with artists Johanna Schartau and Axel Lundgren.
The conversation constitutes the finissage for the exhibition at Tjörnedala konsthall and is part of the project (Centrum) run by the Center for Photography.
About the exhibition:
Several years ago, Johanna Schartau began photographing the sheds with bullet holes at Kabusa firing range. The first time was during the large influx of refugees in the autumn of 2015. She thought about the war in Syria, about refugee camps, about people fleeing their homes. Thus began the project Around me – where I live, but over time the meaning of the places changes. We live in the periphery of wars taking place in Ukraine, in Israel, in Gaza… Here, an echo is heard. Far away but near.
Axel Lundgren’s Archipelactica examines how places function as the center of our inner narrative and how they, in turn, relate to the idea of a “we.” The works are a synthesis, built on fragmentary moments and fantasies together with personal memories and historical observations from Axel Lundgren’s home island of Saltö in the Karlskrona archipelago.
Johanna Schartau is an artist and filmmaker with an MFA from Konstfack and studies at the Royal Institute of Art. She works on a project basis, often around her own and our shared common history with photography, sculpture, installation, and film.
Axel Lundgren is an urban planner and visual artist with a master’s degree in landscape planning from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Through photography, sculpture, and installation, he explores themes such as place identity and history.
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(Centrum) is a series of exhibitions shown at Galleri Format, Projektrum Hjärne, Kristianstad Art Gallery, and Tjörnedala Art Gallery during the period April 19 – June 9. Eight photographers participate – Linnéa Cramer, Erich Hörtnagl, Axel Lundgren, Alice Millet, Anna Nordquist Andersson, Jens Nordström, Johanna Schartau, and Henrik Wejfeldt. Their works revolve around issues of representation, norms, equality, identity, exclusion, place, belonging, history, and the future. The project is carried out by the Center for Photography with the support of Region Skåne.
Read more about (Centrum) and the other exhibitions in the project here.
