Inka & Niclas Lindergård

Inka (1985, Finland) and Niclas (1984, Sweden) Lindergård are 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. Bright utopian landscapes in their works address the spectators’ experience, making them notice not only the beauty but also the culture. An open portal to the hyperrealistic synthesis of beauty, kitsch and visual desire in the language of photography.

Throughout their work, the artists have investigated our contemporary perception of nature through the photographic medium. Our notion of desirable scenery worldwide has been made possible not only by travels to spellbinding locations, but by our consumption of nature via technology. It is through the camera lenses and the digital screens that we experience nature and confirm our own existence.

Vista Point : 

“It was the fourth time for us driving through US, ticking of the superstars of scenic views one by one. There were heaps cameras and phones everywhere and a constant sound of shutters and digital clicks. After a while it started to feel like all the lenses were wearing out the landscape, that somehow the views were slowly eroding from all the thousands of exposures that were made everyday. We started to question why we should add another photograph to this growing pile of random landscape photography.
So we glued the quarter coin, the same coin that you put in the tower viewers at the famous lookout points „Vista Points“, as an act of violence on the landscape photographs. Photographs that didn’t need to be taken.” 

(Source : Dorothée Nilsson Gallery)