In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
Joan Jonas is firmly placed historically as one of the first and most important figures of performance and video art. Since the 1970s, Jonas has split her time between New York and Nova Scotia, Canada. Her artistic practice encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing.
Read MoreArtist and poet Jessie Kleemann is originally from Upernavik in northern Greenland; today, she lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Trained as a lithographic artist, she works with traditional and contemporary Inuit themes, video, music, poetry, and dance.
Read MoreIn his interdisciplinary practice, Portland-based artist Justin Levesque considers the materiality and tradition of photography in relation to information exchange and mediated geographies of the High North.
Read MoreIcelandic multidisciplinary artist Anna Líndal explores geography, mapping, and cartography informed by scientific expeditions that track, record, and visualize the changing landscape.
Read MoreMeagan Musseau works from her contemporary perspective as a L’nu woman living on Ktaqmkuk [Newfoundland]. In her practice, she explores the history of interterritorial relationships between Mi’kmaq and Beothuk nations to enact Indigenous survivance, which is a way of life that nourishes Indigenous ways of knowing, and bring to light the immemorial history of the importance of land to Indigenous peoples.
Read MoreMattias Olofsson lives and works in Umeå and Storbrännan, Sweden. He explores questions of identity in relation to inclusion and exclusion, inspired by masks and confusion, namely situations where the identity arises from being awarded or taking its space in a larger structure.
Read MoreBorn in Norway and of dual Norwegian and Nigerian heritage, artist Frida Orupabo is also a trained sociologist who mines images from archives, the media, and her personal life to create new readings and meanings.
Read MoreBita Razavi was born in Tehran and currently lives and works between Helsinki, Finland and countryside Estonia. Their practice is centered around observations and reflections on a variety of everyday situations, examining the inner workings of social systems in relation to the political structures of various countries and national events of historic pro- portions.
Read MoreIn the new film Time Washes Over Us, Portland-based Joshua Reiman considers mortality through marine life and poetic and observational storytelling.
Read MoreUsing the ephemeral, yet tactile, qualities of sound to architectural interventions, the works by Finnish artist Hans Rosenström are carefully produced in relation to the sites in which they are experienced.
Read MoreSámi artist, activist, and writer Máret Ánne Sara artwork is a protest and symbol of the Norwegian government’s forced slaughter of reindeer belonging to Indigenous Sámi herders in Finnmark County.
Read MoreIcelandic artist Magnús Sigurðarson’s sculptures read as tongue-in-cheek memorials to the cod fish, a species that is closely connected to the history and living inhabitants all around the North Atlantic.
Read MoreExamination of Swedish colonization, the government-sanctioned assaults and a history of denial have been a central aspect of artist Katarina Pirak Sikku’s work.
Read MoreNorwegian artist Andreas Siqueland’s paintings are primarily landscapes in oil, ink and watercolor on board, paper and canvas. His works play on the active relationship between the conditions in which a painting is made and the ‘what’ it depicts.
Read MoreThe artist collective Snæbjörnsdóttir / Wilson investigates the complications of human and nonhuman relations through the study of polar bear arrivals in Iceland.
Read MoreMaine-and-New York based artist Peter Soriano began his career making resin sculptures before shifting to large-scale, site-specific wall drawings made of acrylic and spray paint.
Read MoreAnders Sunna is a Northern Sámi artist from a reindeer-herding family in Kieksiäisvaara, in the Swedish part of Sápmi. Sunna’s politically charged artworks narrate the history of the violence and oppression against the Sámi people, specifically addressing his family’s five-decade-long struggle for their right and acknowledgement to be forest reindeer herders.
Read MoreThe Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX reimagines our environments and embraces the future of vertical fish migration by designing new structures.
Read MoreAtlantic Canadian artist D’Arcy Wilson’s work laments past and ongoing colonial interaction with the natural world from her perspective as a descendent of European settlers in Atlantic Canada.
Read MoreIn her paintings, Arngunnur Ýr interprets Icelandic landscape from a unique perspective of a nature guide.
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