INFLUENCE Group Exhibition 18.06 – 04.08.2022
AnnouncementOblong is a new exhibition space dedicated to photographic art. Oblong aims to become a space for sharing ideas and forging new connections. The exhibition programme will include both solo and group shows. The profile of Oblong will remain positive, inclusive and colourful. The work on display will hold political or societal relevance, informed by strong conceptual ideas. More process-heavy, experimental photography will also be represented. We are excited to open our doors for the first time and welcome you.
Curator: Jonathan Lieb
Graphic Design: Ray Weng
Related Programming Opening on Saturday 18th June, 14.00–20.00
Closing on Thursday 4th August, 17.00–20.00
Exhibition StatementAs each of us attempt to forge our place in the world, we fall under influence. Good influence, bad influence, influence devoid of moral judgement. We inherit from family, peer group, institutions, media, culture, national society, global community. Online or offline, we are shaped by these disparate streams to become conduit; each one of us an influence on others with whom we encounter and engage.
Beyond the individual, we wield our collective influence over a finite planet. As the realities of climate change become more apparent, we reach an era of urgency. An era of collective reckoning, as we begin to experience the consequences of our influence.
INFLUENCE brings together the work of seven artists working within photography. Each of them bringing a sense of vibrancy and urgency to the medium. Oblong is excited to exhibit these artists together for the first time.
Participating ArtistsPaula Duvå (b. 1991) is a Copenhagen-based artist working primarily with photography and video. She studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and has attended the School for Painting and Pictorial Practices at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work explores what it means to see, and questions how we look at the world around us, what are we really looking at? She is interested in the power structures embedded beneath the surface of the everyday.
Liv Latricia Habel is a photographer and visual artist. She studies photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. She lives and works between Aarhus and Copenhagen. In her work, she often turns her gaze towards minority groups, who are under- or misrepresented. In her first publication Diasporan Daughters, she turns the camera on herself, revisiting her own memories and narratives of being a mixed black woman living at the intersection of various cultures and communities. In 2021 Latricia Habel showcased an outtake of the series Diasporan Daughters at the annual Young Danish Photography exhibition at Fotografisk Center.
Alva Le Febvre (b.1999) is a Swedish-French photographer based between Gothenburg and Copenhagen. She studies Fine Art Photography at HDK Valand. Alva explores how various genres, techniques and formats can be combined to create new context. Often drawn to portraying expressions of femininity, her motifs also depict a world of chaos, fragility and material possession.
Mads Holm (b. 1990) is a photographer, teacher and writer based in Copenhagen. He holds an MA in Photography & Society from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he also teaches. Holm engages personally with local and global communities, highlighting subjects on a macro and micro scale. He is concerned with the power structures that shape and transform modern society.
Sarah Michelle Riisager (b. 1990) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. She holds a BA in Fine Art Photography from the Glasgow School of Art. Through a cross-disciplinary approach that intertwines photography, video and installation, her practice explores transformation which is often characterised by sadness, love and nostalgia. She is drawn to the beauty and absurdity, found in the life of disquieting feelings.
Mette Genet (b. 1988) is a photographer and mixed-media artist, studying at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg. Her work currently focuses on the theme of transnational adoption. Through photography, film and sound design, she often places herself in staged scenarios, exploring the feeling of being caught between different cultures.
Luke Norman (b.1988) & Nicholas Adam (b.1986) are a British artist duo. They have worked together since 2007, when they first met studying Photography at the University of Creative Arts, UK. They live and work between Copenhagen and London. Luke & Nik create work which stimulates dialogue between nature and the senses. Primarily (but not exclusively) photographic, their work is bold and experimental: negatives are spliced and taped back together into new compositions, or transformed with bright strokes of acrylic paint. Double exposure, collage and handwritten text come into play, along with myriad as-yet undiscovered techniques.
Installation Views
Installation Photos and Documentation: Mads Holm