Welcome to an evening dedicated to three artists who delve into themes of memory, power, and identity through the exploration of landscapes and seascapes. This event is associated with the exhibition featuring Ingrid Pollard, the 2024 Hasselblad Award winner. In her work, Pollard revisits the landscape as a cultural construct that illuminates issues of power, representation, and the narratives that often remain obscured.

During the evening, you will have the opportunity to hear from artists Ignacio Acosta, Jorma Puranen, and Lotta Törnroth, as they share insights into their distinctive works.

Date: Wednesday, October 23
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Location: Hasselblad Center at the Gothenburg Museum of Art
Admission: This program is included with your entrance ticket and will be conducted in English.
Featured Speakers: Ignacio Acosta, Jorma Puranen, and Lotta Törnroth.

Ignacio Acosta is a visual artist and researcher working with photography and video in territories under pressure from extractive industries. His multi-layered collaborative practice and spatial installations seek to connect audiences with these complex yet critical concerns.

Acosta works in places made vulnerable through ecological exploitation, colonial intervention and intensive capitalisation. He is devoted to the understanding of sites and landscapes that, although often neglected, are of global significance. Developed mainly between his native Chile and Swedish Sápmi, his projects focus on resistance to territorial fragmentation produced by extractive industries and the so-called “green transition”.

Jorma Puranen is known for his long-term work, which re-animates the colonial history and legacy of Arctic explorations. In ”narrating the North” he often uses archival sources and different techniques of re-photography, exploring and visualizing relations of history, knowledge, landscape and culture. Through experiences of travel and borderland Puranen wishes to create a matrix of fact and fiction, a field of fantasy and geographical imagination.

Puranen´s methodology is a dialogue across time, to rethink the Arctic colonialism and landscape through a poetics of memory and the historical. In his photographs the found visual material reappears as though from a lost world, becoming manifest in a ghost form.

Lotta Törnroth (b. 1981 in Solna) works with photography, text, sculpture and aquarelle. She is educated at the University of Photography in Gothenburg and at Aalto University, the University of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki. Törnroth has published three monographs with the publisher Blackbook Publications, and participated in exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. In 2023, she spent 6 months at IASPIS in Stockholm, where she worked on two projects about the sea and grief. Her latest book Lunar Cycles will be released in September 2024.

Image:

Pastoral Interlude (1988)

© Ingrid Pollard