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A diversity of voices at Landskrona Foto Festival 2024

On Friday 12 January, Landskrona Municipality announced some of the plans in development as part of Landskrona Foto Festival 2024, Sweden’s international photography festival.

Hosted from 6 to 22 September, the festival will bring together various curatorial projects across the city. Landskrona Konsthall’s exhibition will be curated by British-based French-Cameroonian curator and art historian Christine Eyene.

Entitled ‘Where to Land the Eye’, Eyene’s project proposes to address the topic of land as natural environment and foundational to identity formation, as well as site of extraction that continues to be subjected to forms of occupation stemming from colonial histories. The exhibition will also seek to reflect on how these affect the movement of people, and how migratory experiences are informed by arbitrary policies defining who is deemed acceptable from one territory to the other.

Between interrogation and assertion, ‘Where to Land the Eye’ will develop in a speculative approach ranging from exploring the depth of organic matter through photographic experiments, to examining palimpsestic socio-historical narratives embedded in the soil and uncovered through research-based photography practices. This project will also be an invitation for the eye to wander across geographies and experience how photography allows us to navigate places, build visual and narrative connections between proximity and distance, and mediate the interrelation between here and there.

Presented at Landskrona Konsthall – an exhibition space designed by Sten Samuelson and Fritz Jaenecke, built in 1963, with outer glass walls opening views onto a surrounding park and containing a Japanese garden at its centre – the exhibition will propose a visual journey across diverse forms of lens-based practices displayed in ways that engage with the architecture of this post-war Swedish modernist venue.

Other exhibitions will take place at Landskrona Art Gallery, Landskrona Museum, Tyghuset, the Citadel and more. Landskrona Foto Festival’s programme will also include a photo book exhibition and award, seminars, talks and performances.

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Christine Eyene is an art historian, critic, and curator. She is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool. Her curatorial practice encompasses contemporary arts, with a particular interest in African and Diaspora arts, feminism, photography, and sound art. Eyene recently completed her PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, dealing with the relationship between African literature and visual representation in the work of South African photographer George Hallett (1942-2020).

Her latest exhibition, ‘Seeds and Souls’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023-2024) presents works by major international artists. Her past photography projects include: ‘RESIST! The 1960s Protests, Photography and Visual Legacies’, Summer of Photography 2018, BOZAR, Brussels (2018); ‘RESIDUAL: Traces of the Black Body’, part of FORMAT International Photography Festival 2015, New Art Exchange, Nottingham; and ‘WHERE WE’RE AT! Other Voices on Gender’, Summer of Photography 2014, BOZAR, Brussels.

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For more information on Landskrona Foto visit www.landskronafoto.org.

Press contacts:

Maria André: maria.andre@landskrona.se

Anna Classon: anna.classon@landskrona.se

Nina Persson Kerr: nina.perssonkerr@landskrona.se

Source: Landskrona Stad