Publication - Residency artists Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth, “Eyes as Big as Plates Volume II”

Publication -  Eyes as Big as Plates 2

Eyes as Big as Plates 2 features 50 brand new works and field notes made over the last four years in South Korea, Tasmania, Outer Hebrides, Senegal, Iceland, Greenland and Norway, produced in collaboration with wrestling coaches, fishermen, Sami reindeer herders, Aboriginal Uncles, kantele players, housewives, wild boar hunters, village chiefs and surfers.

About Eyes as Big as Plates 

The Scandinavian duo Riitta Ikonen & Karoline Hjorth formed Eyes as Big as Plates in 2011 - an ongoing collaboration around photography and sculpture carried out across the world from Greenland, South Korea, Tasmania, Finland, to the United States. The series is produced in collaboration with retired farmers, fishermen, zoologists, plumbers, opera singers, housewives, artists, academics and ninety year old parachutists. Each image in the series presents a solitary figure in a landscape, dressed in elements from surroundings that indicate neither time nor place. Here nature acts as both content and context: characters literally inhabit the landscape wearing sculptures they create in collaboration with the artists.