Time After Time
We are living in a time when humanity is pushing nature to its limits. Concerns about the environment and the planet’s future are, at their core, concerns about our own survival. Traditionally, nature has been a powerful source of inspiration for Nordic artists and today, many contemporary artists continue this legacy by exploring themes related to nature and climate change—offering insights and perspectives that other disciplines often cannot.
Time After Time is a multimedia exhibition featuring five Nordic artists of different generations interested in themes of nature and energy, time and perspective, light and darkness and human presence and absence. The exhibition spans both above and below ground, inside and outside the Nordic House. Nature and natural materials and concepts serve as a philosophical starting point, but together the works evoke a more elusive, layered narrative. The visitor is cast out of time and space and left unsure about what is beginning or ending, caught in a liminal space where memory, matter, and perception intertwine.
Time After Time wants to celebrate nature’s remarkable restorative capabilities and its cyclical sense of time, offering a sense of hope amid conflicts, disasters, and ecocide. It reflects on the contrast between natural forces andthose of human and the human body, through the lens of time. It explores the various traces left by humans for other time periods and is a a reminder of the relative insignificance of humanity within the broader context of time and space.
Artists participating in the exhibition are Anastasia Ax, Felipe de Ávila Franco, Jussi Kivi, Saara Ekström and Sandra Mujinga.
Curator: Sabina Westerholm, the Nordic House director.
Accessibility information: Access to the Hvelfing exhibition hall is via stairs on the outside and with an elevator from the atrium. A ramp leads to the front door from the parking lot, an automatic button opens the door. The elevator is on your right when you enter the atrium. Accessible restrooms are on the main floor.
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