Trine Søndergaard / Nicolai Howalt

Trine Søndergaard b. 1972/Nicolai Howalt b. 1970.

Both artists live and work in Copenhagen, Denmark

 

TREE ZONE by Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt is a photographic exploration of the Nordic landscape and ways in which we relate to it.

 

In a series of images the artists have captured the barren landscapes found in areas along the Nordic timberline during winter. In this marginal land you see solitary trees weighed down by snow. The trees are bent and stunted by their harsh environment. Human forms may appear, but they seem insignificantly small within the vast, white nothingness.

 

These colorless images tell a story of defiance, of surviving in spite of ruthless conditions, of being part of a world that you cannot fully control or know.



TREE ZONE: Tree no. I, 2007-08, digital C-print, 155 x 120 cm