Stephanie Sydney

Blue Cow

2019

Archival pigment print

Archival pigment print

Images from soloshow a Buer Gallery, oslo. 2021 The need for images that can change us. – An account of Christian Houges images. “For example, one could say. A people is a “group of rational beings, bound together in agreement about what they love.” The kind of “people” they are, would be determined from what they “have loved.” If we then have a group of rational beings (animals excluded) who are “bound together in an agreement about what they have loved”, then it makes sense to call them a “people”, no matter what they may have loved. And for better or worse, what it is that they have found in common, through better or worse they are considered as a people” – Augustin, De civitate Dei – The City of God. A glacier is melting in the Alps. The consequences, if it completely disappears together with the other glaciers, will be catastrophic: The ocean will rise and livelihood will vanish for many. Yes, the very place we inhabit each and everyone of us, nation, the earth we walk on - the home we seek refuge for safety - will in part be completely gone. .....In this context, another series by Christian Houge becomes interesting, because it not only sheds light on the national romanticism...

Ghost Souls III • 2022 • Edition of 18 prints in 3 different sizes. A collaboration of photographer Angelika Büttner and visual artist Laure Laferrerie. All prints are numbered and ...