#Riitta Ikonen

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Wearable landscapes. Earth clothes. Environmental jumpsuits.

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Riitta Ikonen

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Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth - Eyes as Big as Plates

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Riitta Ikonen & Annie Collinge, Successive Lines, January, 2013. Courtesy of Riitta Ikonen & Annie Collinge | @abwwia

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EYES AS BIG AS PLATES: Stuttgart am 18.04.2023 um 18 Uhr

Die Künstlerinnen Karoline Hjorth und Riitta Ikonen begannen bereits 2011 mit der Serie Eyes as Big as Plates. Zunächst ging es ihnen darum, Verkörperungen der Natur und folkloristische Legenden über Naturph��nomene zu untersuchen. Ein Jahrzehnt später hat sich die fotografische Arbeit zu einer Suche nach der Zugehörigkeit des modernen Menschen zur Natur weiterentwickelt, für die das…

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I'll be ready when it comes

from eyes as big as plates by riitta ikonen and karoline hjorth

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“We need to learn to see not just with Western eyes but with Islamic eyes and Inuit eyes, not just with human eyes but with golden-cheeked warbler eyes, coho salmon eyes, and polar bear eyes, and not even just with eyes at all but with the wild, barely articulate being of clouds and seas and rocks and trees and stars.” –ROY SCRANTON

Eyes as Big as Plates is the ongoing collaborative project between Karoline Hjorth (NO) and Riitta Ikonen (FI). Starting out as a play on characters from Nordic folklore, Eyes as Big as Plates has evolved into a continual search for modern human’s belonging to nature. The series is produced in collaboration with retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera singers, housewives, artists, academics and ninety year old parachutists. Since 2011 the artist duo has portrayed seniors in Norway, Finland, France, US, UK, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Sweden, Japan, Greenland, Czech Republic and South Korea. Each image in the series presents a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time nor place. Here nature acts as both content and context: characters literally inhabit the landscape wearing sculptures they create in collaboration with the artists. [1] Eyes as Big as Plates # Brit (Norway 2018) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen [2] Eyes as Big as Plates # Mrs Sim (South Korea 2017) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen [3] Eyes as Big as Plates # Mr Ohi (South Korea 2017) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen [4] Eyes as Big as Plates # Eli (Norway 2017) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen [5] Eyes as Big as Plates # Jan (Norway 2017) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen [6] Eyes as Big as Plates # Agnes I (Norway 2011) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen [7] Eyes as Big as Plates # Marie I (US 2013) © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen credit: https://karolinehjorth.com/eyes-as-big-as-plates/

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Eyes as Big as Plates

Riitta Ikonen, Karoline Hjorth

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Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen The Lore of the Land

Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen play with the porous border between human and nature. They create portraits of older people wearing sculptural costumes made from vegetation they find around them in the landscape. Each image is an enactment that grows from a collaboration with the subject and the relationship that person experiences with their surroundings. However strange or whimsical the final image may at first seem, what lies beneath the surface is a fearless receptivity. The photographs – and perhaps the subjects themselves – draw their strength from the landscape in which they reside.

Collected into two books made over the past thirteen years, and featured widely in exhibitions and the media internationally, the work forms an ongoing extended series called ‘Eyes as Big as Plates’. While the title draws on a Nordic folk tale, it was chosen to reflect the wide-eyed curiosity that guides the duo in their artmaking. Each portrait is, as they say themselves, a kind of adventure.

Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen rediscover the lore of the land at Talking Pictures.

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"bob ii" (2013) by karoline hjorth and riitta ikonen

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Eyes as Big as Plates

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Wearable landscapes.

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‘Eyes as Big as Plates II’

Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen

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I drew Riitta Ikonen’s photo of a mushroom girl :) How did she get there?

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Details from “Eyes as Big as Plates” by Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth

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Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth