Joachim Koester: Row Housing
Galeri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
March 24 - May 6, 2000
Galeri Nicolai Wallner presents an exhibition with new works of Joachim Koester.
In the main gallery: The 30 photographs that makes up Row Housing is an attempt to narrate a specific space and it's history while at the same time pointing to the boundary of the photographic image. The location is Resolute on Cornwallis Island in the far north of Arctic Canada. An area made famous through Sir John Franklin's disastrous attempt to find the Northwest Passage in 1843. With images of Franklin's winter camp, abandoned military stations from the cold war, and the only building completed as part of the Swedish architect Ralph Erskine's model town, the photographs from Row Housing aim at capturing the ghost frames resonating in and around the town of Resolute. The images depict the area suspended between visible and invisible traces of history, and the newly gained independence as part of the Inuit state Nunavut in 1999.
In the back gallery: Four photographs from Greenland as a part of the larger work Nordenskiold and the ice cap. An installation about the explorer Nordenskiold's and his expedition to the Greenlandic ice cap in 1870.
GALERI NICOLAI WALLNER
Njalsgade 21, Building 15, 2300 Copenhagen
