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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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Eyes as Big as Plates is the result of the talent of photographer Karoline Hjorth and visual artist Riitta Ikonen. In this sublime work,  are featured from all over the world, retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera singers, housewives, artists, etc.. The artists traveled as many places as Norway, Finland, France, US, UK, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Sweden, Japan, Greenland, Czech Republic and South Korea to capture the portrait of these humans full of stories. source: https://karolinehjorth.com/eyes-as-big-as-plates/

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'Eyes as Big as Plates - Astrid I' Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen, 2011. #karolinehjorth #riittaikonen #plantsoneARTh #plantsinart #plants #art #earth (en Planet Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnkY5sVgLFV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ihe2bnr8xg1q