NEW YORK, NY.- Another North: Landscape Reimagined, an exhibition featuring the work of six innovative contemporary Nordic artists, opens at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, in New York City, on May 6, 2016. The selection of 19 photographs and media installations highlights contemporary Nordic artists that use landscape to limn the boundary between the known and the unknown, reimagining it as a multivalent space at once familiar and otherworldly, visible and invisible. Comprising photographic and video works, the exhibition will explore landscape as a place of complication, rather than revelation, and investigate channels into new ways of seeing. The exhibition will be on view from May 6 through August 6, 2016 at Scandinavia House in New York City.

Over the last 15 years, Nordic artists have increasingly elected to use photography and film not as tools to capture “reality,” but rather as means of limning the boundary between the known and the unknown—of reimagining landscape as a multivalent space at once familiar and otherworldly, visible and invisible. Another North will feature photographic and video works by six of these artists—Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Finland), Ole Brodersen (Norway), Sigurður Guðjónsson (Iceland), Simen Johan (Norway/Sweden), Susanna Majuri (Finland), and Pentti Sammallahti (Finland).

The exhibition will take on a variety of different approaches to rendering and considering contemporary landscape, exploring the motif as a sphere of complication, rather than revelation, and investigating channels into new ways of seeing: Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Horizontal, a 10-meter-wide projection (Fig. 2) of a monumental spruce tree, explores biologist Jacob von Uexküll’s (1864-1944) proposition that different worlds of living beings exist simultaneously, and questions human centeredness, human perception of nature, and the way in which film articulates and shapes perception. Ole Brodersen’s series of largeformat photographs, Trespassing, invites manmade objects into the landscape in an attempt to unveil the invisible natural phenomena at play in the Norwegian archipelago. Simen Johan’s images (Fig. 3) are intricate digital constructs that confuse the boundaries between opposing forces like natural and artificial, known and unknown. Susanna Majuri’s submerged landscapes (Fig. 1) transform familiar scenes of snowcapped mountains and green marshes into cinematic dreamscapes. Sigurður Guðjónsson’s Veil renders an invisible wind visible, capturing a gauzy veil of black sand woven by gusts on an Icelandic beach. And Pentti Sammallahti’s intimate, uncanny, black-and-white photographs offer momentary glimpses into a supernatural North beyond our own.