Organised in collaboration with the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute, the opportunity includes a residency period in October 2024 and an art project that will take place at the international art festival Barents Spektakel in February 2025.<\/p>\n
Emergency Weather<\/i> is a visual narrative about returning to a remote village \u2014 one that is home. This narrative is woven together by the presence of ancestors, the shifting weather, and the emergency of knowledge. The images explore the isolation of information, seeking to reveal what the landscape itself can communicate. Photography serves as a sacred, ceremonial practice \u2014 a weather diary that becomes a metaphor for knowledge lost or transformed by time, as the climate itself shifts.<\/p>\n
Lada Suomenrinne<\/strong><\/a> (b. 1995) is S\u00e1mi visual artist with roots in Northern Russia. Their work is founded in belonging and the body-land trauma they explore in the imaginary landscapes. Their objective is to create a dialogue with the seen and unseen other living beings and ancestors. Suomenrinne is fascinated by the borderland and its unseen S\u00e1mi lakes, through which they explore the utopian landscapes of potential alternative worlds. Together with the land, they seek a safe place as an Indigenous person at the end of the world.<\/p>\n Suomenrinne holds a master\u2019s degree in photography from Aalto University and their works have been exhibited internationally, including group exhibitions Even Better than a Real<\/i> Thing \u2013 Whitney Biennale (2024), G\u00e1lgat mohkiid, duog\u014bat gok\u010dasiid<\/i> \u2013 Kunstnerforbundet (2024), Earthworks<\/i> \u2013 Bergen Kunsthall (2024), S\u00f8sterskap<\/i> \u2013 Les Rencontres d\u2019Arles (2023), and Landscapes of Belonging<\/i> \u2013 Kindl Berlin (2022). Their works are also included in prestigious collections such as those of the Finnish Museum of Photography and the Finnish State Art Commission.<\/p>\n Barents Spektakel<\/a>, where Suomenrinne\u2019s art project will take place, aims to raise and discuss current issues related to the north and the Barents region. Organised by the curator collective Pikene Broen<\/a>, the festival hosts exhibitions, performances, debates, and collaborative projects.<\/p>\n
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