Arctic Drawings, a.k.a: The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (after Nauman) 2009
A series of photographs produced during an artist residency in the Svalbard islands, somewhere between Norway and the North Pole. The work investigates an experience of whiteness, which can be disorientating and results from the lack of environmental references to claim our attention.
The images, here presented, address the search for picturesque landscapes as methodology developed during the Romanticism, the true artists revels mystic truths, and to question the photographic medium and its indexical value. In this case, the snow takes the place of the white paper, the background. The uncovered traces of the landscape take the place of the marks made on the paper. The landscape draws on the snow and photography returns to drawing. The photographs become drawings because of the attention we invested in them that are expectations of what a drawing is. However, they are photographs and not what we want might expect them to be.
