Circular Wait

Martina Hoogland Ivanow

There 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 shadows and light. The images are characterized by a soft grey scale such that 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 her most recent work, the series Circular Wait (2010 – 2014), she focused on examining our oftentimes artificial and contradictory relationship with nature – a relationship that is largely about control, exposing the fragile balance between humankind, culture, sustainability and nature. The title refers to a state in harmony with the cycles of nature, but, by extension, also to an inability to break a pattern.
An interest in what is complex and contradictory runs like a common thread through Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s work, in which the photographic process becomes an investigation into our dualistic nature and how the self relates to the outside world. Estelle af Malmborg

Official opening with the artist October 1, 6 pm