Free Rangers 2: Martina Lindqvist
August 4, 2008
“Rågskär is a modest, rocky island situated 15 kilometres off the coast of central Finland. Mostly red, but sometimes a faded yello w or green, a few small, wooden cottages are scattered along the shoreline bearing witness to human presence within a space where otherwise there is none.
The island is a place where real and unreal finally dissolves, a place that can only exist in imagination. The island can only be touched in pictures by circumventing the usual way of the camera, and each image in the series is consequently an interpretation and a recreation in miniature of a holiday photograph lifted from its carefully arranged space in the family album. Rather than being tied to the physical properties of the real world these images look to tease out the character and personality of a rather shy dot in the sea. The photographs make visible something akin to an introspect reality which nonetheless seems just as real.”
