20.01.25 - 25.02.25
RESIDENCY: Emma Arnold
Emma Arnold, PhD (b. Montréal, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of art and environment. She leads the Institute for Art & Environment, an independent research platform conducting projects with environmental, social, and urban themes. She blends academic research with artistic practice and is concerned with how environmental crisis can be understood through art. Her current research focuses on contemporary art and extractivism in industrial and post-industrial landscapes.
Emma's work revolves around photography as an immersive and investigative tool for place and sense creation. Inspired by Velferden's surroundings and the presence of residual waste heaps and landfill sites, Emma used this opportunity to research, write and create in an area deeply affected by mining. She explored the otherworldly landscape of Sokndal through image-making, and plans to publish an article based on this research, and develop a series of photographs, illustrations and prints that reflect the area’s unique geology and history.
