Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No. 1-3
Three video works exploring the image of the Nordic landscape. Each film appears at first to be a still image — a postcard, an emblem — until slow, almost imperceptible movement reveals otherwise. Layers shift, forests approach, mist drifts. The tranquil surface is set in quiet, irreversible motion.
One might associate this with time-lapse films of the movements of tectonic plates. Just as My Lindh’s work demonstrates, these show how the landscape is continuously transforming (phusis!). Whether we notice it depends only on how long we spend in a place. And how, for that matter, could we choose which moment is the authentic one in a process of constant transformation? At what point in geological history is nature eternal and untouched?
—Therese Uddenfeldt, from the exhibition catalogue What is nature?, Conceptions of Nature at Västerås konstmuseum, 2020-21
Watch:
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.3 (excerpt)
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.2 (excerpt)
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.1 (excerpt)
Works from the Nordic Panorama series has been shown individually and as a three-channel installation, including at Iaspis, Stockholm, 2015; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2017 and 2019; Ebelingmuseet 2020; Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 2020; Västerås Konstmuseum, 2020; and Uppsala Konstmuseum, 2023. Works from the series are held in the collections of the Public Art Agency, Västerås Konstmuseum, Region Gävleborg and Region Stockholm and distributed by Filmform – The Art Film & Video Archive. Produced with kind support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Air d’Islande and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No. 1-3
Three video works exploring the image of the Nordic landscape. Each film appears at first to be a still image — a postcard, an emblem — until slow, almost imperceptible movement reveals otherwise. Layers shift, forests approach, mist drifts. The tranquil surface is set in quiet, irreversible motion.
One might associate this with time-lapse films of the movements of tectonic plates. Just as My Lindh’s work demonstrates, these show how the landscape is continuously transforming (phusis!). Whether we notice it depends only on how long we spend in a place. And how, for that matter, could we choose which moment is the authentic one in a process of constant transformation? At what point in geological history is nature eternal and untouched?
—Therese Uddenfeldt, from the exhibition catalogue What is nature?, Conceptions of Nature at Västerås konstmuseum, 2020-21
Watch:
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.3 (excerpt)
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.2 (excerpt)
Nordic Panoramas, Landscape No.1 (excerpt)
Works from the Nordic Panorama series has been shown individually and as a three-channel installation, including at Iaspis, Stockholm, 2015; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2017 and 2019; Ebelingmuseet 2020; Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 2020; Västerås Konstmuseum, 2020; and Uppsala Konstmuseum, 2023. Works from the series are held in the collections of the Public Art Agency, Västerås Konstmuseum, Region Gävleborg and Region Stockholm and distributed by Filmform – The Art Film & Video Archive. Produced with kind support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Air d’Islande and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art
