row housing - press
release
It is a great
pleasure to present an exhibition with new works of Joachim Koester.
In
the main gallery: The 30 photographs that makes up Row Housing is
an attempt to narrate a specific space and it's history while at
the same time pointing to the boundary of the photographic image.
The location is Resolute on Cornwallis Island in the far north of
Arctic Canada. An area made famous through Sir John Franklin's disastrous
attempt to find the Northwest Passage in 1843. With images of Franklin's
winter camp, abandoned military stations from the cold war, and
the only building completed as part of the Swedish architect Ralph
Erskine's model town, the photographs from Row Housing aim at capturing
the ghost frames resonating in and around the town of Resolute.
The images depict the area suspended between visible and invisible
traces of history, and the newly gained independence as part of
the Inuit state Nunavut in 1999.
In the back gallery:
Four photographs from Greenland as a part of the larger work Nordenskiold
and the ice cap. An installation about the explorer Nordenskiold's
and his expedition to the Greenlandic ice cap in 1870.
Please contact us
for press-kit about the two new projects of Joachim Koester.
We welcome you in
the gallery.
Kind regards,
Nicolai Wallner
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