Residents Recommend by Rikke Luther

Moving Landscape, Tidal Flat, Svalbard, 2023 (Image courtesy Rikke Luther)

This week we are pleased to share artist Rikke Luther’s Residents Recommend text. 

“In my mind, the trip first started when I arrived in Kiruna. The flattened landscape, the negative mountains, piles of small stones and goods wagons. I wondered whether Svalbard would present itself as a commodity? Negative whale oil. Coal, cruise ships, and deep-seabed mining. The train passed through Lapland. Then Svalbard is here.”

Read the full text here.

Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen, she was nominated for the residency by the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA).