Location: Cinema, Landskrona Foto, Date: Thursday 23rd of May 2024. Time: 17.30-18.30.
The presentation will be held in English.
Meet this springs residency photographer Marta Djourina, and hear her present her work and the project she is making in Landskrona.
Marta Djourina’s artistic practice focuses on the exploration of various light phenomena. Light becomes a subject matter, a tool and an object of investigation. While some works have a biographical component and apply the use of self-made pinhole cameras (later sent per post, attached to a pigeon or made out of a suitcase during travel), other works explore the light of living organisms such as mushrooms and algae. Often, the artist applies historical photographic techniques, e.g. to capture the notion of touch within an image.
During the residency Djourina plans to extend the idea of working with a type of water photograms. The project builds on works she has done at the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria, Rockaway Beach near NYC and recently the water of the Seine in Paris. This time Djourina looks at the Øresund as a bordering water area with a long and vast history.
This experimental-documentary new series extends projects like “Fluid Touch” (2023) and “Sole” (2020) by exploring yet a completely different and new territory, in the direct sense of the word. Øresund’s water conditions are rather unusual and shifting. The salinity levels are in a constant change, which will be depicted in an abstract matter onto the photographic material.
This project looks into the constant shifts of water, which we will be living through more and more in the coming years. Water that is not fixable but constantly rising.
For questions, please contact Inga Linn Härdelin at ingalinn.hardelin@landskrona.se.