If you have been through downtown Reykjavík recently you might have noticed several large-scale photographs that have been installed on house walls across the city centre. The unmarked photos show landscape almost covered in snow, with earth and sky becoming one and only a few plants and some gravel breaking the monochrome colour.
If you have asked yourself: What is this? Where is it from? the message has been delivered.
rísa
The installation is the work of German based artist Anna Domnick who has spent the last two years working on the impacts of energy harnessing in Iceland. The photos are taken in Þjórsárver wetlands in the central highlands, an area that could one day be affected by a large reservoir. The installations are subtly reminding us what could be lost if those in favour of building dams in Iceland’s central highlands have their way.
Anna calls the series of five photographs “rísa” (meaning rise in Icelandic). The photos were installed one by one from March 20th to March 28th and will be up until April 28th.
While Anna Domnick remains artistically independent in the concept of her work the Iceland Nature Conservation Association has financially sponsored the installation.
If you want Iceland’s central highlands to be spared from further construction you can sign a newly launched petition here.
The artist
Anna is born in 1983 and studied photography from 2007 until 2013 at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany and at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She has recently won the most renowned newcomer award for photography in Germany among further nominations both nationally and internationally and her work has been shown in various exhibitions in Europe, the US and Asia, including museums such as Haus der Photographie – Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, German Museum of Architecture Frankfurt, Germany, and La Chambre Strasbourg, France.
If you have been through downtown Reykjavík recently you might have noticed several large-scale photographs that have been installed on house walls across the city centre. The unmarked photos show landscape almost covered in snow, with earth and sky becoming one and only a few plants and some gravel breaking the monochrome colour.
If you have asked yourself: What is this? Where is it from? the message has been delivered.
rísa
The installation is the work of German based artist Anna Domnick who has spent the last two years working on the impacts of energy harnessing in Iceland. The photos are taken in Þjórsárver wetlands in the central highlands, an area that could one day be affected by a large reservoir. The installations are subtly reminding us what could be lost if those in favour of building dams in Iceland’s central highlands have their way.
Anna calls the series of five photographs “rísa” (meaning rise in Icelandic). The photos were installed one by one from March 20th to March 28th and will be up until April 28th.
While Anna Domnick remains artistically independent in the concept of her work the Iceland Nature Conservation Association has financially sponsored the installation.
If you want Iceland’s central highlands to be spared from further construction you can sign a newly launched petition here.
The artist
Anna is born in 1983 and studied photography from 2007 until 2013 at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany and at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She has recently won the most renowned newcomer award for photography in Germany among further nominations both nationally and internationally and her work has been shown in various exhibitions in Europe, the US and Asia, including museums such as Haus der Photographie – Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, German Museum of Architecture Frankfurt, Germany, and La Chambre Strasbourg, France.
