A Surreal and Melancholic Series by Inka and Niclas Lindergård » Design You Trust

Inka and Niclas Lindergård are a Swedish-Finnish artist duo who build artwork based on photography. They have been collaborating considering that 2007 and live in Stockholm, Sweden.

Their perform explores the partnership amongst images and nature, and how they condition our perception of reality. They use shiny colors and optical effects to build utopian landscapes that challenge the viewers to problem their individual anticipations and cultural assumptions. Their function is a portal to a hyperreal globe of attractiveness, kitsch and visual want, expressed via the language of photography.

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The duo’s do the job displays on how we practical experience mother nature in the digital age, both via travelling to exotic spots and via consuming photographs of nature on numerous units. They use pictures as a instrument to seize and manipulate mother nature, and to affirm their individual existence. Their perform is a critique and a celebration of the photographic medium and its role in constructing our vision of character.

In “Family Portraits,” Inka and Niclas and their two kids consider selfies in scenic places. They put on reflective suits that make them glow and hide their faces from the digital camera. The do the job explores the modern-day follow of travelling and photographing – the have to have to establish that we ended up there. It also examines how we perspective and eat character by photos, and how the digicam makes a magical moment of capturing mild.