Sunset Photography

 

Inka & Niclas are an artist duo working primarily with photography-based art. Since 2007, they have collaborated on projects that reinterpret landscapes through photography, photo-sculpture, and installation.

Inka & Niclas’ Sunset Photography series explores the entangled relationship between digital image culture, tourism, and the consumption of nature. The works emerge from the artists’ own image archive-an accumulation of countless photographs taken during years of travel. Like many tourists, they captured the classic landscape tropes: golden sunsets, distant horizons, iconic vistas. In revisiting this digital excess, the artists shift focus from the singular, perfect shot to the overlooked and discarded. These forgotten images are printed on textiles and then saturated with resin. Weighted by layers of plastic, they collapse into themselves-crumpled, heavy, distorted.

Through this physical transformation, Sunset Photography stages a quiet critique of how natural landscapes are aestheticized, commodified, and consumed. The sunset becomes a predictable visual product; the act of seeing is replaced by scrolling, snapping, posting.

 

The exhibition of the Biennale for Freiburg 3 spans public spaces, cultural institutions, and project spaces. HAPPY PLACE presents artists exploring the interrelationships between the environment, mobility, leisure, and travel.

Each exhibition venue pursues a distinct thematic focus, thus highlighting specific aspects of the thematic framework. Images of stray dogs in the ruins of unfinished resorts on the Red Sea are contrasted with photographic sculptures in Schopf2. Dissolving sunsets are integrated into the tile pattern of the former workshop, unsettling the visual habit of conventional vacation images.

/ Biennale for Freiburg 3, 2025. Artistic director Lorena Juan.