HRTLND by Danish photographer Mads Holm is a powerful exploration of life in a rapidly changing world, captured across 20 European and North American countries between 2013 and 2023. Through striking images of urban life, demonstrations, emerging technologies, migration, architecture, and militarized spaces, the book reflects on the paradoxes and tensions shaping modern society. It highlights the interplay between connectivity and control, freedom and surveillance, and the gradual militarization of everyday life.
The book presents a hyperreal landscape where the ordinary is interwoven with the unsettling, challenging the viewer to question what is visible and what remains obscured. Here Holm captures the undercurrents of global capitalism, militarization, and societal fragmentation, offering a layered narrative that is as much an artistic statement as it is a political act.
In line with the photographs' relation to public space and discourse, a number of the works are shown in public space in Halmtorvet. In the first week of the exhibition period, Mads Holm will perform the daily performance work Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, which combines a city walk between the works and readings of his essays in the book.
Mads Holm has previously exhibited images from the HRTLND series in public spaces in The Hague in the Netherlands (2020) and most recently in Braunschweig, Germany as part of the group exhibition BOOK_SPACES at Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2023).
The exhibition is curated by Matthias Hvass Borello.
Source: Prospekt