Martina Hoogland Ivanow – Shadow Works, Living The Dream

Lancement
18 juin 2025
18h – 20h

Martina Hoogland Ivanow is an artist working primarily with photography and film, exploring the interplay between filtered light, sound and image. After an acclaimed early career as an international photographer in New York, Paris and London, she established her art practice in Stockholm in 2002, where she continues to live and work.

Shadow Works, Living the Dream, published by Livraison Books in 2025, presents a newly edited selection spanning thirty years of photography. The book includes images from her series Speedway (2002 – 2005), Far Too Close (2002 – 2007), Elephant and Castle (2009), Satellite (2009 – 2010), Circular Wait (2010 – 2014), Early Reading (2016 – 2018), Re-enactment (2016 – 2019) and Second Nature (2019 – 2024). It also features fashion editorial work from 1994 to the early 2000s, originally published in Dazed & Confused, 10 Magazine, The Face and Another.

In recent work, Hoogland Ivanow has deconstructed documentary imagery, revisiting her extensive archive of negatives. This process led her to rediscover and rework past photographs, ultimately inspiring the creation of this book:

I’ve been thinking about what comes before and after, about repetition and the potential of abstraction. Certain themes emerge — irrationality, theatricality, and the ways we play with identity. It’s multi–layered and interspersed.

I see humans as the rare species, the odd ones. We know what to do but are incapable of doing it. We are the parasites of the earth. We are also extraordinary.

In my relationship with the camera, I have developed methods involving visual displacements and the manipulation of shadows to create a visual language characterised by reduction and abstraction. In this respect, analogue photography and the darkroom have been useful, as the opacity or transparency of the negative, when exaggerated, creates the possibility of absence. I find that a camera often captures more information than the human eye can register, and therefore explores the possibility of showing less.

– Martina Hoogland Ivanow

2025
295 × 235 mm
196 pages, 183 images
Softcover
English
Edition of 666 copies

Text: Grace Johnston after conversations held April-June 2024
Book design: Sandberg&Timonen
ISBN: 9789198989809

Livraison Books ( L – B 0 1 1 )

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