Inka & Niclas, SE

For nearly two decades, Inka & Niclas have explored nature through the camera, not as documentation but as a way of examining how ways of seeing are formed. Working across photography, video, sculpture and installation, they investigate how visual conventions, technology and cultural expectations shape our perception of the natural world.

In the new works G-type Main Sequence, the artists return to a reduced landscape motif consisting of horizon, sky, water and sun. The familiar elements appear subtly altered, compressed or abstracted, and hover between image and construction. What at first seems recognisable reveals itself as something less certain. Rather than presenting nature as a fixed reality, the series frames it as a space of projection, memory and desire, where image, material and cultural imagination intersect.

Inka (b. Finland, 1985) and Niclas (b. Sweden, 1984) Lindergård have worked together since 2007 and live in Stockholm, Sweden. They have had exhibitions at Haus am Kleistpark (Berlin, Germany), Lidköping Konsthall (Sweden), Gothenburg Museum of Art (Sweden), Cantor Arts Center (California, USA), Nasher Museum of Art (North Carolina, USA), Pearl Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Sternenpassage, MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, Austria) and Museo Fortuny (Venice, Italy) to name a few.

Their works are represented in the permanent collections of Moderna Museet (Sweden), Gothenburg Museum of Art (Sweden), Fries Museum (the Netherlands), Arendt & Art (Luxembourg), The Wienerberger Collection (Austria) and Edit Maryon Foundation (Switzerland). They were awarded the EMOP Arendt Award 2021 and The Swedish Photo Book Price 2012.