Inka & Niclas - Photographs London Tuesday, November 21, 2023 | Phillips
  • “Our aim is to create enticing photographs that point towards the desires in our photo-saturated culture and also a bit towards the absurdity of it all.”
    —Inka & Niclas 

    Created in Tenerife in 2018, 4K Ultra HD II (Tropical) by Scandinavian artist duo Inka (b.1985) & Niclas (b.1984) is a mesmerising landscape with a single palm tree at centre, bathed in sunset hues of pink, orange and yellow. For their project 4K ULTRA HD, a term used in the industry for screens with extremely clear picture quality, the artists created landscape representations that destabilised the generic, repetitive motifs – sunsets, palm trees or night skies – populating our screens. The transformation of the image occurs at the moment of exposure. ‘Our tiny flash colours the tree in the hues of the sunset for less than a 300th of a second,’ explains the duo. ‘We cannot see it happening with our own eyes.’ Based in Stockholm, Inka & Niclas have exhibited widely and works from their 4K ULTRA HD project reside at Moderna Museet, Stockholm and the Gothenburg Museum of Art. 

     

    This offering marks the artist duo’s debut at auction. 

     

    Video interview with Inka & Niclas on their image-making process, 2023. Courtesy of the artists.

    • Exhibited

      Sculptural Landscapes, NŌUA, Bodø, 13 - 30 March 2019
      In Relation To – An Exhibition About Space and Place, Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm, 11 September - 4 October 2020
      Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape, European Month of Photography, Arendt House, Luxembourg, 9 May - 5 September 2021; Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg, 7 May - 17 October 2021; Foto Wien, Vienna, 9 - 27 March 2022
      In Bloom, Fotografiska Stockholm, 17 February - 11 June 2023
      Return to Nature, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, 7 July - 7 October 2023

    • Literature

      Sculptural Landscapes, Bodø: NŌUA, 2019, n.p.
      Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape, Luxembourg: EMOP, 2021, p. 14
      Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape, Vienna: Foto Wien, 2022, p. 1

ULTIMATE

10

4K Ultra HD II (Tropical)

2018
Archival pigment print, mounted.
Image: 160 x 120 cm (62 7/8 x 47 1/4 in.)
Frame: 164 x 124 cm (64 5/8 x 48 7/8 in.)

Signed, titled, dated and numbered AP2 in ink on an artist label affixed to the reverse of the frame.

This work is AP2 from the sold-out edition of 5 + 2 APs. This image exists only in this edition.

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Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

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London Auction 21 November 2023