Paula Duvå
Founder of Foto Studio
Get in touch:
pauladuvaa@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/pauladuvaa
Download CV
Upcoming:
BEERS 9 – unge kunstnere på kro, 24
Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, 24
2024: Upcoming exhibition in Platform
2024: Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed)
order through https://www.diskobay.org/books/killer-machine/
October, 2023: New book
I’m relasing my first book:
Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed)
https://www.diskobay.org/books/killer-machine/
Disko Bay is thrilled to present Paula Duvå’s Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed), a book that challenge our perception of the sky delving into a body of work that explores questions of space, technology, and politics.
Paula Duvå takes documentary photography into the hyper-real, as a concrete trace of war, when she documents camouflage smoke trails from fighter jets and missiles captured during various military airshows and demonstrations throughout Denmark. The jets themselves are either gone from the frame or digitally removed, leaving only the traces behind.
In the book, Duvå repeatedly examines the same motif, resulting in a series of landscape photographs that transform the sky images into something reminiscent of war photography. Duvå’s works go beyond merely documenting the beauty of the sky and also delve into the territorial, mythical, and war-filled space that the sky represents. Who owns this space, and what do we truly see when we look up? The work is a comment on the largest single weapon acquisition in Danish history – 27 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets, whereas the first planes are delivered the same week as the book is released.
October, 2023: Talk
Fotografisk Center, 12/10. 17-18
I will be in dialogue with Torben Eskerod and Mette Sandbye at Fotografisk Center, focusing on documentarism and disappearances of places, objects, and people.
September, 2023: Catalogue launch
Fotografisk Center is lauching a catalogue from the exhibition with all exhibiting artist and a text by Signe Kahr Sørensen.
August, 2023: exhibition opening
Forsvindinger, Fotografisk Center
https://www.fotografiskcenter.dk/udstilling/forsvindinger
May, 2023: exhibition opening
fernissage: 18/5, 17.00 - 21.00
Everyone is welcome
20/4 2023: Artist talk, VERA
I have been invitited to give an artist talk at VERA. Everyone is welcome.
26/3 2023: CPH:DOX
I will be part of a group critique after the sreening of the film THE GROUP CRIT at SMK.
More details HERE.
Group critique on 'group critique'
After the screening, which is part of our ART:CINEMA at SMK, you can meet Paula Duvå (graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2022), William Andreas Wivel (graduated from the Danish Film School, 2019) and Anna Rieder (graduated from the School of Writing, 2019) in a joint group critique that explores and dissects the very concept of 'group critique'. The conversation is presented together with the publishing house Gladiator and will be moderated by editor Freja Bøgh Lassen.
2023: Weekendavisen
Foto Studio is mentioned in the article
by Mette Sandbye
https://www.weekendavisen.dk/2023-1/kultur/slip-fotograferne-ud-af-kasserne
Founder of Foto Studio
Get in touch:
pauladuvaa@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/pauladuvaa
Download CV
Upcoming:
BEERS 9 – unge kunstnere på kro, 24
Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, 24
NEWS
2024: Upcoming exhibition in Platform
2024: Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed)
order through https://www.diskobay.org/books/killer-machine/
October, 2023: New book
I’m relasing my first book:
Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed)
https://www.diskobay.org/books/killer-machine/
Disko Bay is thrilled to present Paula Duvå’s Killer Machine (the sublime sky, clouds, camouflage smoke disrupting heat seeking missiles, fighter planes removed), a book that challenge our perception of the sky delving into a body of work that explores questions of space, technology, and politics.
Paula Duvå takes documentary photography into the hyper-real, as a concrete trace of war, when she documents camouflage smoke trails from fighter jets and missiles captured during various military airshows and demonstrations throughout Denmark. The jets themselves are either gone from the frame or digitally removed, leaving only the traces behind.
In the book, Duvå repeatedly examines the same motif, resulting in a series of landscape photographs that transform the sky images into something reminiscent of war photography. Duvå’s works go beyond merely documenting the beauty of the sky and also delve into the territorial, mythical, and war-filled space that the sky represents. Who owns this space, and what do we truly see when we look up? The work is a comment on the largest single weapon acquisition in Danish history – 27 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets, whereas the first planes are delivered the same week as the book is released.
October, 2023: Talk
Fotografisk Center, 12/10. 17-18
I will be in dialogue with Torben Eskerod and Mette Sandbye at Fotografisk Center, focusing on documentarism and disappearances of places, objects, and people.
September, 2023: Catalogue launch
Fotografisk Center is lauching a catalogue from the exhibition with all exhibiting artist and a text by Signe Kahr Sørensen.
August, 2023: exhibition opening
Forsvindinger, Fotografisk Center
https://www.fotografiskcenter.dk/udstilling/forsvindinger
May, 2023: exhibition opening
fernissage: 18/5, 17.00 - 21.00
Everyone is welcome
20/4 2023: Artist talk, VERA
I have been invitited to give an artist talk at VERA. Everyone is welcome.
26/3 2023: CPH:DOX
I will be part of a group critique after the sreening of the film THE GROUP CRIT at SMK.
More details HERE.
Group critique on 'group critique'
After the screening, which is part of our ART:CINEMA at SMK, you can meet Paula Duvå (graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2022), William Andreas Wivel (graduated from the Danish Film School, 2019) and Anna Rieder (graduated from the School of Writing, 2019) in a joint group critique that explores and dissects the very concept of 'group critique'. The conversation is presented together with the publishing house Gladiator and will be moderated by editor Freja Bøgh Lassen.
2023: Weekendavisen
Foto Studio is mentioned in the article
Slip fotograferne ud af kasserne
by Mette Sandbye
https://www.weekendavisen.dk/2023-1/kultur/slip-fotograferne-ud-af-kasserne
2023: Forsvindinger, Fotografisk Center
I look forward to taking part in the group show at Fotografisk Center, 26.08.–22.10.23.
More info here.
2022: Årgang 2022 / Kunst på Arbejde
https://www.kunst-paa-arbejde.dk/udstilling/aargang-2022/
2022: FOTO STUDIO
a platform, a need of a community and our new studio space.
Talks, exhibitions, interviews, events, prints.
https://foto-studio.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fotostudio________/
2022: Group show at Oblong,
a new exhibition space for photography
https://www.oblong.dk/
2022: Video about the works for AFGANG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-FO-EYRvb4&t=2s&ab_channel=KunsthalCharlottenborg
2022: Review of AFGANG in kunsten.nu
https://kunsten.nu/journal/afgang-22-tid-til-at-granske-sanse-og-danse/
2022: AFGANG, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
https://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/da/udstillinger/afgang-2022/
2022: Aiming their bow beyond the kairos, AGA, Copenhagen https://kunstakademiet.dk/da/aktiviteter-og-nyheder/aktuelt/udstilling-aiming-their-bow-beyond-kairos
2021: Vårsufflé 2021, Galleri Slätten, Malmö
https://gallerislatten.se/
2020: Interview in Kvinde & Samfund
2020: OPGØR, The foyer of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, CHART art fair.
In august 2020 I initiated the OPGØR exhibition.
For more info, visit instagram.com/opgoer,
or get in touch.
Interview about the exhibition:
https://flora-utgafa.is/vol-8-english/making-space-for-women-and-non-binary-in-the-danish-art-world/
and:
https://kunsten.nu/journal/34-akademistuderende-i-opgoer-med-skaev-koensfordeling/
2020: Dining in Deportation Centre Sjælsmark, Hørsholm Library.
The series has been exhibited in Museumsbygningen, Soiz Gallery and Danske Grafiskeres Hus. Now it is on show in Hørsholm Library which is a library in the same commune as Deportation centre Sjælsmark.