Group exhibition, SOL, Nexø (DK)
July 2023
With Filip Vest, Samara Sallam, Sophia Luna Portra & Sidsel Winther
Curated by Malou Solfjeld
Photos by Brian Kure
For this year's July exhibition Solastalgia at SOL, we are excited to present five artists, currently studying or recently graduated from one of the Nordic art academies: Samara Sallam, Sophia Luna Portra, Sidsel Winther, Sofie Amalie Andersen and Filip Vest. The artists are invited to revisit already existing works and reconsider them through topics surrounding the concept of Solastalgia - an unheimlich feeling best described as homesickness experienced while one is still at home. Due to the current climate crisis, more and more people around the world experience destructive changes in the environment they call home. Solastalgia is linked to the psychological health impact created by these changes – as well as to the distress of what is happening to our shared home, Planet Earth, as time goes by. (...)
excerpt from exhibition text by Malou Solfjeld, July 2023
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Bench (Wreck), Carrara Marble slab, plastic sand bags, 2021
Braid (midnight marble), three-colored arctic marble, 2020
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