Trine Søndergaard og Nicolai Howalt: How to Hunt

The exhibition How to Hunt presents a series of photographs on the theme of 'hunting' interpreted by contemporary artists Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt.

Since 2004, the artist couple have participated in autumn bird and game hunts and interpreted the ancient ritual through photography. But what we see in the images is not a direct representation of the hunters and the Danish landscape. Each image in the series consists of several photographs taken over time and from the same point that the artists have digitally combined into one image. If you study the images closely, you can therefore find both animals and people repeated in the same image.

Søndergaard and Howalt play with our perception of time and reality. They challenge our traditional perception of photography characterised by a split second by expanding the moment through digital processing.

With references to Romantic landscape painting, Søndergaard and Howalt thematise the relationship between animals, humans and nature. As art history's latest addition to a thousand-year-long interpretation of the hunting scene, they create a fluid boundary between documentary and art photography, reality and fiction.

Trine Søndergaard (b. 1972) and Nicolai Howalt (b. 1970) both graduated from the Danish School of Photography Fatamorgana. Their collaboration began in 1999. Together they have produced a number of exhibitions, photographic series and art books. Alongside their joint projects, they work as individual artists. They are both represented at Martin Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen and Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York. Their photographic works have been exhibited both in Denmark and abroad, and they are both represented in a number of public art collections worldwide.

Read more about the exhibition How to Hunt in the accompanying catalogue with an introductory text by British art historian prof. Liz Wells (116 pages, illustrated. Published by Gyldendal and Hatje Cantz).