Birgitta Lund studied at the International Center of Photography in New
York where she lived and worked for eighteen years. Her work has been featured
in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and
Europe, including Galleri Baudoin Lebon, Paris, Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse,
and Phillips de Pury in New York. Lund returned to Denmark in 2003, where
she currently resides.
In 2003, Lund began her project In Transit, a personal and political reflection
on the transition between the United States and Europe. Lund documents specific
areas including Ground Zero, Times Square, and the harbors of New York and
Copenhagen, in addition to conceptual metaphors such as a model railway,
a house covered by sand, and an artificial horserace. Lund's work embodies
the vision of an artist who uses photography to reflect a world in which
we seem to be permanently in transit. Images flash onto our retinas for
a few seconds before others immediately replace them. In Transit is a visual
journey between two countries and two cities as well as a journey in our
time. Lund received the 2005 Award of the Foundation HSBC pour la Photographie
for this project.
In her latest body of work, still untitled, Lund shot photographs in the
Tivoli Gardens, an amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Through the diversity
of the visitors and the activities in which they engage (many "warlike"),
she creates a metaphor for the outside world. Lund juxtaposes the surreality
of the theme park with the looming, darker reality outside its gates. Recently,
Lund was selected to exhibit in Descubrimientos PHE in connection with the
international photography festival PHotoEspaña 2010 in Madrid, Spain.
In Transit 2003-2005 [view images]