Gränsland / Borderland, 1-5

Borderland 1/ Gränsland 1: Katherine Bennett och Paul McKewen, Australien (bomullsband), Nordkapp Borderland 2/ Gränsland 2: Elena och Serge Shevchenko, Ukrania (plastförpackning), Nordkapp Borderland 3/ Gränsland 3: Per-Olof och Stig Eriksson, Sverige, (aluminium fiskfolie, plast), Nordkapp Borderland 4/ Gränsland 4: Familjen Durand, Frankrike, (plastförpackning), Nordkapp Borderland 5/ Gränsland 5: Familjen Elkelä, Finland, (våtservett), Nordkapp The series Borderlands highlights the relation between mobility, landscape, borders and freedom. The portraits in the series are a fictitious description of temporary visits to the sites where human lack of empathy with nature and spurious claim to the place is made visible. I wanted to use portraits because they to some extent represent the rulers in a flattering way. Here, portraits become a manner to question how history is written through the gesture of our collective carelessness. Garbage gets stuck on the fence along the cliff of North Cape, the port of call before the North Pole, as a sort of mirror of what has been and what will happen. As part of the Sami project Nuortabealli, I visited places and landscapes in the periphery both as an exploratory and a situated process, but also to propel my own body into motion in order to, as white and middle class, challenge ideas of privilege. Luleå - Haparanda - Tornio - Kemi - Rovaniemi - Karigasniemi - Karasjok - Honningsvøg - North Cape.