Inka (Finland) and Niclas (Sweden) Lindergård is an awarded artist duo who works primarily with photography-based art. They have worked together since 2007 and live in Stockholm, Sweden. The materiality of photography is crucial in Inka and Niclas Lindergård’s work which tells of the contemporary perception processes of nature and the connection of the photographic medium with the stylisation of landscape. The artist duo creates hyperreal photographic utopias that synthesize and question beauty, kitsch, and visual desires in the imagery of the natural world. Misplaced sunsets, bubblegum waves, and full-spectrum panoramas, exaggerate the already beautified landscape photographs we surround ourselves with.
Inka & Niclas have had exhibitions at Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California, USA; the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA; Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Sternenpassage, Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria and Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy to name a few. Their works are represented in the permanent collections of, amongst others, Moderna Museet (Sweden), the Gothenburg Museum of Art (Sweden), the Fries Museum (The Netherlands), the Public Art Agency (Sweden), and Arendt & Art (Luxembourg). They were awarded the EMOP Arendt Award 2021.
“Philosopher Jonna Bornemark describes the artist's work as a process that involves sensitivity to the sensory aspects of a situation: how something looks, feels, sounds, and smells. It is within this sensory experience that the artistic process takes place. In a time where we easily drift into abstractions and generalizations, and where words often take over entirely, we must train ourselves to stay rooted in the sensory impressions of the here and now. In viewing Inka & Niclas' work, it is striking how many ways they engage with the mechanics of vision: composing monumental nature views; zooming in on seemingly overlooked fragments of local flora; dissolving the motif in the meeting between photography and unusual materials; playing with the hidden in the sculptural works. All are ways to seek to awaken the dormant, habitual seeing again. Do you have access to your perception? Can you see the cosmos in the clutter by the roadside?” Olga Krzeszowiec, curator