Dust (2025)
Chappe Museum 5/2025 – 9/2025
Dust is about the layered nature of time and space – traces of human presence, destruction and decay, as well as the life cycle of the old-growth forest and the birth of the new. In these images, the vitality and unruliness of the forest appear as reflections of trees cast by the sun setting behind the horizon on the walls of damp, empty rooms in abandoned miners' housing. This stands in contrast to the history, dust, and rust of human-altered landscapes.
Jussarö Island has long served as a base for seafarers and fishermen. Iron ore was mined there from the 18th century until operations ceased in 1967. The traces of mining have profoundly reshaped the island’s landscape – abandoned buildings and industrial remnants now stand amid wild and overgrown nature, creating an uncanny and ghostlike atmosphere. Slowly, the human-made environment is being reclaimed by nature, as if returning to a time before human presence.
