Einar Falur in Snowflakes and Other Surprises in Copenhagen

Snowflakes, vegetation and human intervention in nature are at the core of the exhibition Snowflakes and Other Surprises, which opened January 23rd in Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, with works by 16 artists from Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The exhibition has been curated by the Icelandic author and curator Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir, who has developed the term and concept poetic storytelling. The concept describes a particular way of using a photograph as a narrative medium in an attempt to understand and sense the world.

From the exhibition Snowflakes and Other Surprises in Fotografisk Center. To the left Elina Brotherus: “From the series Sebaldiana. Memento mori, 2019”. To the right Einar Falur’s Sunnudalur, “September 2018 - Sunnudalur 2019” and “Coronadays, 2020” Photograph: Hendrik Zeitler.

The works in the exhibition shed light in various ways on the human relationship with nature and other living beings. A common feature of the participating artists is that they are preoccupied with various phenomena or elements of nature such as trees, mountains, plants, birds and snowflakes – and they explore new ways of being in the world; of relating to and interacting with the world and nature. 

The participating artists are Elina Brotherus, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Tinna Gunnarsdottir, Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir, Ulrik Hasemann, Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Tiina Itkonen, Sanna Kannisto, Jacob Kirkegaard, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Helene Schmitz, Mathias Svold, Magnus Wennman and Hendrik Zeitler.

Snowflakes and Other Surprises is part of a Nordic collaboration among Fotografisk Center, Landskrona Foto in Sweden and Northern Photographic Centre in Finland, where the exhibition will be shown subsequently in 2022 and 2023.