On the lookout for climate change, the icebreaker Odin pushes itself up through water and ice. Karin Alfredsson is on the journey, who has signed on as a field assistant and who with her camera follows the ship’s almost invisible movement forward. It roars, it creaks, the flatbed splits, all while nature – the seemingly infinite – changes its light. It’s beautiful. It’s melancholy.
Karin Alfredsson’s work Norra Ishavet touches on our own smallness in the face of nature’s might. The great in the small and in that an opportunity for reflection on our own being.
The film is 20 minutes long and congenially sounded by composer Sebastian Öberg, former member of the Pork Quartet.
Karin Alfredsson was born in 1966 on Frösön in Jämtland and has lived and worked in Stockholm since 1989. She is represented at Moderna Museet, the National Art Council, Stockholm Art and a dozen other institutions and has exhibited in a wide range of galleries and art galleries around Sweden. In 2019, she was awarded the Liljevalch and San Michele Foundation’s newly established Capri Scholarship.
The exhibition is shown in Liljevalchs+.
