Trine Søndergaard’s work is marked by a precision and a sensibility that co-exist with an investigation of the medium of photography, its boundaries and what constitutes an image.
She is internationally acclaimed for her quiet and powerful imagery and she has received The Albert Renger-Patzsch Prize and the three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation[1] The landscapes and mirrorings of memory, silent inner rooms, and women’s occupations and roles through history are all themes in Trine Søndergaard’s works.
The works create a kind of gap, a clearing in the existence, in which all stands out in a almost extreme concentration.
However, her use of reduction and repetition transforms the work into a kind of conceptual photography, and the dialogue with art history is always present in her oeuvre.
The ordinary and the ceremonious are presented equally, and the undercurrents of melancholy, loss and the image as a condition transcending the verbal also characterize her work.