SNBA - Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes

Rua Barata Salgueiro 36, 1250-044 Lisboa

12 . 09 . 2024 → 12 . 10 . 2024

monday - friday → 12:00 pm – 07:00 pm

saturday → 02:00 pm – 07:00 pm

Artist

Erle Kyllingmark

The philosophy of Deep Ecology holds at its core that all living things are connected and that everything has its own value. In 1984 George Sessions and Arne Næss developed the 8 Basic Principles of Deep Ecology. These are the first two:

1. The well-being and flourishing of human and non-human life on Earth have value in themselves. These values are independent of the usefulness of the non-human world for human purposes.

2. Richness and diversity of life forms contribute to the realization of these values and are also values in themselves.

I use the medium of photography to explore this flourishing and interconnectedness of life. Last summer I started with the flowers. I collect them on my films. Then I manually rewind the rolls and store them in the fridge. Then I collect the trees, from green and into the colors of fall. They are exposed on the same films, rewound, and stored. When spring comes, I find the people. Intuitively, I place them together with a flower and a tree, on the same rolls that are now going through the camera for the third time. The interweaving is a result of how the 3 exposures blend on the analog film. They start as separate and become one. It’s a slow process materialized by knowledge, intuitive decisions, curiosity, and luck.

This is a portrait of some of the incredible variety of forms that life can assume. All these flowers, trees, and people I met in Oslo.