Regarding The Pain of the Future
Norwegian Honerud works in the tradition of documentary photography, but has recently expanded her practice to involve distortion through manipulation. Through several projects, Honerud has shown a strong social and political engagement.
In her ongoing series Regarding the pain of the future, she zooms in on her home country, photographing the labour involved in preparing for future scenarios, including emergency preparation exercises and personal experiences of self-realisation. She follows rescue agencies, seed growers, garden enthusiasts, the military and environmental organisations in Norway. While some of these emergency response services and practices are integral parts of the welfare state, others are the result of a lack of faith in the model to prepare for a precarious future.
Honerud looks closer at how the relations between time, the world, and the self are being reshaped in this situation. For her, this calls for new forms of representation, which she explores in the series through subtle staging and manipulation rather than ‘straight’ documentation to convey subjective experience.
From the publication: Søsterskap, Objektiv #27 - the issue accompanied the exhibition ´Søsterskap - Contemporary Nordic Photography´ which was part of the 2023 Les Rencontres d'Arles.
Norwegian curator team: Nina Strand and Susanne Ø. Sæther