Grand Prix for Subbacultcha (NL)
Søn (DK)
Smerz (DK)
Chinah for No3 (DK)
Silvana Imam for Girls Are Awesome (DK)
Jessy Lanza for Girls Are Awesome (DK)
Helle Helle for DeMorgen (BE)
Hinds for Girls Are Awesome (DK)
Luka Holmegaard (DK)
Lust for Youth for Subbacultcha (NL)
Peaches for Girls Are Awesome (DK)
Red Lama (DK)
2019
Out Of You is a photographic story made in the small harbour town Rota in Southern Spain. My curiosity to the town is something I have explored, interpreted, and then shared with the viewer. I have tried to dig into the mystery of the town and created a story about transformation and growing up.
As a starting point, I would like to communicate with those who look at my photographs. I tell my story when I share what I experienced. But the real ambition is to make people find their own stories within mine.
I set up frames and direct the viewer in one direction and suggest the action. But in the end it is the viewers story that is important no matter what.
Installation views from a solo show at Mercado Central in Rota, 2019
2014-2019
Girl is a photographic portrait of my upbringing and youth as a professional artistic roller skater in my hometown Frederikssund, Denmark. Based on personal needs, it is a tale of sadness, failure and longing for more.
In the narrative, the selfish ambition is to get a dipstick deeper in understanding my teenage years and the relationship with my father, who I adored. I lived with my father since I was 6 years old – the first 6 years of my life he had another family that did not include my mother and I. When I was 21 years old and just taken as a student at Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Art Photography he died. We never managed to talk about the hard things in life.
To be published by Disko Bay in 2021
2017-2018
2017
Frozen is a visual poem from my travel in Yakutia, which also serves as a survey of this remote place that few of us are familiar with and many have not seen.
Yakutia is a land of contrasts as the weather fluctuated between freezing and minus 60 degrees, the Yakutians I visited in their homes were warm and hospitable – showing me an openness and love I have rarely experienced before. I fell in love with the harsh nature, the cold and frozen landscape and above all, the people. I was fascinated by the way these young people grow up in villages with only 300 inhabitants and where the winter can last for 8 months. In these closely-knit communities, people come together as they withdraw from the outside world en masse and form a unique communal bond, at the core of intimacy.
I want to be intimate with the people I meet, to really feel and discover them. I want to fall in love standing right on the edge, embracing the uncertain. In my work I have always focused on being personal, intuitive, and humble. I focus on the relationship between people and being present – present in a world I find difficult to understand but also a world I want to understand.
Frozen is an insight into my universe, a universe built on wonder, loneliness, love, and fascination. With this project I want to openly invite the viewer to partake in this journey and to share my universe so that they can create their own story within mine.
2020
Installation views from a group show at FUKK in Copenhagen
2016
Memories From Outer Space is a project that goes exploring in a metaphysical universe and hovers in the space between the real world and private imaginative universe. It's where you zoom out and look at the world from the outside – across the surface of the world – up in the atmosphere – into outer space. Then you zoom all the way into the core of the Earth where you explore the colors, the light, and the surfaces.
The work is an attempt to understand the present rather than making predictions about the future. I’m like an external observer, a kind of ‘alien’, who investigates and depicts our world from a new angel. I work with emotions and speculations you find when you look at the world. I tear apart artificial and real fragments and put them back together in an attempt to reflect on things that we cannot describe or define. I want to make my subject matter organic, so we can look at the beauty in the unsettled.
ongoing project 2014-
Hedvig is my niece. Each year in September I make a portrait of her. She decides what to wear and how to express herself. In this picture she is two years old. Today she is six.
a solo show at Ungt Rum in Copenhagen, 2019
and a group show at Street Level Photoworks, during The Jill Todd Photographic Award in Glasgow, 2018
a solo show at C4 Projects in Copenhagen, 2018
Installation views from a solo show at Mercado Central in Rota, 2019
a solo show at KVIT Gallery in Copenhagen, 2017
and a group show at A Space For Photography, during Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, 2017
a group show at The Centre of Photography, during Young Danish Photography in Copenhagen, 2016
and Degree Show at The Tontine Building in Glasgow, 2016
during the group show Not From Concentrate, at The Fleming House in Glasgow, 2015
2020
2018
It’s Human To Cry and It’s Okay To Cry are two videos, which is a part of a bigger project called Cry. It is a project that deals with how the world looks when one would imagine how it looks. Mankind’s relation with grief and grief processes are explored. The audience is invited to embrace the weeping and reflect over the mourning, which according to Riisager is what fundamentally makes us human. Grief is at the same time a natural consequence of being a human in a globalised society. The audience is made to be part of the ambiguous dynamic between seeing and being seen.
Both videos were exhibited at the solo show CRY at C4 Projects in Copenhagen, 2018.
2018
It’s Human To Cry and It’s Okay To Cry are two videos, which is a part of a bigger project called Cry. It is a project that deals with how the world looks when one would imagine how it looks. Mankind’s relation with grief and grief processes are explored. The audience is invited to embrace the weeping and reflect over the mourning, which according to Riisager is what fundamentally makes us human. Grief is at the same time a natural consequence of being a human in a globalised society. The audience is made to be part of the ambiguous dynamic between seeing and being seen.
Both videos were exhibited at the solo show CRY at C4 Projects in Copenhagen, 2018.
2014
Cheetah takes you on an audio-visual hunt where attraction and repulsion become entangled in a systemic arrangement of sound and Internet footage. With layered visual compositions a structure emerges that points to the act of “not seeing” in the midst of seeing - that a narrowing of vision is necessary to focus. But this system is only to be broken by the apparent not homogeneous selection of subjects depicted. As the video unfolds the sound guides and reacts conveying a sense of unsettling rest.
Cheetah is a plethora of screenshots, images, video and sound. Surfing the deep web I have collected, ordered and putted together video clips from the Internet to create my own view of the world. Among other things, a watermelon getting cut into a flower, an Iphone getting smashed by a hammer, an exploding dead whale, thousand of swimmers in the ocean, white cats with different eye colours, girl fight, a dismembered frog, Brazilian waxing. This is interleaved with footage of my hands embracing, destroying and collecting various objects on colourful backgrounds. The clips are a mixture of the beauty, the absurdity and the repulsive reality you find in life.
Self-published, 2016
Printed on white and purple sugar paper Assembled by hand 13.5 x 19 cm 24 pages, 23 images Edition of 25
Self-published, 2013
Assembled by hand 12 x 15.5 cm 16 pages, 11 images Edition of 25
Chinah ‘When The Lights Are One’, 2017
Søn ‘Danish Crown’, 2020
Published by BROTHAS, 2017
28 cm x 42 cm - folds out to 12 posters in the size of 56 cm x 42 cm 24 images, 24 pages 1st edition of 650 copies
STOCKIST BROTHAS, Copenhagen (DK) Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (DK) Nr. 33, Copenhagen (DK) Palmspree, Copenhagen (DK) Bladr, Copenhagen (DK) NW Gallery, Copenhagen (DK) Papercut, Stockholm (SE) Street Level, Glasgow (UK)
