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Frontiers of Another Nature: Contemporary Photographic Art from Iceland at Frankfurt’s Kunstverein

FRANKFURT.- “Frontiers of Another Nature” is a unique selection of Icelandic photographic and multimedia artists who address landscape and man-made environments in their work. The exhibition explores how the photographic arts are an essential means for examining the undeniably complex relationship of Icelanders to their natural environment. “Frontiers of Another Nature” introduces ambiguous environments in which the photographers investigate and build visual narratives around the expanse of land, or the loss of it. Here, the landscape often acts as metaphor for desire, alienation, magnificence and awe, tradition, irony or rebellion. Some of the artists specifically work within the expansive borders of city life in regard to the extreme economic changes the country has seen in the last 10 years. The youngest artist, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson (born 1981), for example, has photographed a fence built around a construction site in Reykjavik over a year’s time a