Martina Hoogland Ivanow is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden working mainly with photography but also with film. An interest in what is complex and contradictory runs like common thread through her work in which the photographic process becomes an investigation into our often dualistic nature and how the self relates to the outside world. She has published 4 books Far too Close, 2010 (SteidlMack), Speedway, 2013 (Livraison books), Satellite + Circular wait + Second Nature, 2016 (Livraison books & Art and Theory publishing). Her most recent book Early Reading, 2018 (Art and Theory publishing) is part of a larger project – In its entirety, the project consists of non-linear documentation of social structures and their different approaches to trust and fear. Hoogland Ivanow work is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet in Stockholm and The Public Arts Agency, Sweden.
Far Too Close
Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Far Too Close
Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Far Too Close is a visual meditation on distance, both physical and emotional, of closeness to a subject and remoteness from a place. The edit interweaves family portraits and interiors of home with landscapes of some of the most remote and far flung locations at the very ends of the Earth. Over seven years she travelled to various places in Siberia, Sakhalin Island, Tierra del Fuego and the Kola Peninsula in Russian Lapland. Each of these places has its own dark history and has been the focus of dispute and discontent. Combined with photographs of her own community, a literary tale emerges which shifts from disturbing to familiar and is about the very nature of photography, its capacity to relate history and emotion from afar and nearby.