GALLERI NICOLAI WALLNER

 

 

 

 

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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