Sunday November 24th at 2 p.m., artist Pétur Thomsen will welcome guests at the museum for a talk about the exhibition Settlement, featuring works from his ongoing series of the same name, but this is the first time that the artist presents the works at an exhibition bearing that title.
Settlement is a long-term photography project by Pétur Thomsen, where he investigates land use and how humans impact nature. Pétur photographs mines, roads, lava fields, woods, creeks and cultivated land in the darkness, using a flash to define the subject. Thus, the photos become a testament to man’s transformation of nature, which has in the last centuries been so extensive that many believe that mankind has brought about a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene: a period that is marked by climate change and global warming, among other phenomena.
Pétur Thomsen (b. 1973) finished an MFA in photography from École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles, France, in 2004. Before that, he studied French, art history and archeaology at Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier and art photography at École supérieure des métiers artistiques in the same city. Pétur has received various awards and recognitions, including, for example, the LVMH Corporation prize in 2004, awarded to a young artist for the 10th time. He was also selected by the Musée de L’Élysée in Lausanne as one of the 50 photographers likely to make waves in future photography history, in the project reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow.
Free entry – everyone welcome.