The meanings attached to our surroundings are often closely linked to history and belonging, and we all have subjective perceptions of the landscape we find ourselves in – something that is also expressed through the artist’s interpretive gaze. An apparently deserted desert is for some people much more than “just” a sea of sand, in the same way that the woodland behind the childhood home is a very special place for the individual.
What meaning is attached to a landscape depends on the eye that sees. In what ways can landscape representations constitute a charged material, and what stories can they tell us? In the group exhibition The splinter in the eye, this is expressed through, among other things, painting, photography, video and drawing.
