Introduction to the work of NINIA SVERDRUP by Peer Golo Willi
It is the overlapping of coincidence and control that leads to different ways of examining reality in Ninia Sverdrup’s work.
Sverdrup’s video series Urban Scenes (IV-XII, 2005-2011) captures everyday events and occurrences in urban surroundings. At first, trivial scenes are simply observed. The shown scene always remains an excerpt of an otherwise fleetingly recorded scenery: people and cars move within the excerpt, sometimes they appear suddenly as autonomous elements and then disappear again. The absurdity of these contemporary vedute becomes even more fantastical when Sverdrup digitally incorporates the mirrored images of architectural elements, which only catch the eye at a second glance.