Linda Hofvander (b. 1978) lives and works on Ekerö, Sweden. She holds an MFA from The School of Photography, Gothenburg University and a BFA in Photography from London College of Communication, University of The Arts London.
Hofvander has exhibited at venues such as Moderna Museet, Thielska galleriet, Artipelag, Hasselblad Center and Kunstnerernas Hus. She has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Cecilia Hillström Gallery (Stockholm), Galleri Hammarén (Gothenburg), Format (Malmö), MELK and Konstepidemin (Gothenburg). She is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Public Art Agency Sweden, Gothenburg City Council, Uppsala County Council, Region Skåne and in private collections.
Terje Abusdal (b. 1978) is a visual artist with a background from the KMD Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus.
Abusdal’s work has received the Leica Oscar Barnack Award, and Fotogalleriet’s Nordic Dummy Award and Norway’s Most Beautiful Book. He has published three books with Journal (SWE) and one book with Kehrer Verlag (DE).
His work has been exhibited at Bergen Kunsthall, Preus Museum, Buskerud Kunstsenter, Noplace, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rouen), and Mattatoio di Roma.
We are excited to continue our series of duo shows with two solo presentations by Terje Abusdal and Linda Hofvander titled ITAKA and Shadow Imprints.
Shadow Imprints
Linda Hofvander, working with photography, video, and installation, focuses on the mechanisms of perception. Through subtle shifts in light, space, and perspective, she exposes the thresholds where the familiar turns strange, and where private observation becomes a shared mode of seeing.
Shadow Imprints is divided in two parts. Part one is the sculptural series Gerd. A collection of clothes of personal importance has been cast, and the filled insides shaped to bodies. The work presented are photographic fixations of these bodies mounted on metal sheets. They have the shapes of concave and convex mirrors. Part two is the photograph on the wall called Shadow Imprints – a documentation of the sculptural work Gerd as a negative image and an attempt to develop the bodies in a photographic process.
ITAKA
Abusdal’s photography moves between documentary, storytelling, and myth. His images question the reliability of memory and blur the boundary between fact and fiction, showing how narratives of self and community are shaped through acts of remembrance and imagination.
ITAKA is inspired by the journeys of Abusdal’s grandfather, Tomas Mølland, who set out to discover the world after losing his wife in 1977. Created over seven years and informed by travels across Europe and the Balkans – culminating on the sunlit shores of the Greek islands – this photographic series offers an open-ended meditation on the Nordic dream of escape: of sun, sea, and adventure.
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