Bella Fortuna Exhibition

La Bella Fortuna

^{Installation view: Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station (Copenhagen, DK).
Photos by Jenny Sundby.}^{Everyone has a relationship to the weather and the
weather affects us all. But how each and one of us are affected depends on which
step on the planetary ladder you have been placed (are you for instance a
slow-growing shrub in a forest conservation area, a mineral floating around in
the River Thames, or a brown transsexual woman living in a suburb?). With
inspiration from 1970’s environmental grassroot-movements, the exhibition
utilized its location on a public train station to loudly banner landscape
motives as ways of relating to the planet while juxtaposing intimate, “homie” still-lives
as a safe-space, counter weight to a public loudness.

Bella Fortuna is a solo exhibition centered around the release of the artist
book Bella Fortuna Magazine. The exhibition can be seen as a minor pause in a
longer study of: what constitutes a linguistic or poetic landscape vs. a
physical landscape? And, is it possible for abstract, landscape photography to have a political dimension today and a real transformative
potential?
The title of the exhibition means ‘good luck’ and is a reminder to all of us
that luck –and perhaps a touch of solidarity– is needed from all of us to face
the coming forecasts for a future.}