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“The Artist Duo Transforming the Elderly into Natural Wonders”

by Tess Thackara, – artsy.net, January 25, 2018

“This is the story of an art project that began with three words, typed into Google: grannies, Norway, photographer.It was 2011, and the Finnish artist Riitta Ikonen was dreaming up a new proposal related to Nordic folk tales. While studying at school in Brighton, England, Ikonen had developed a friendship with a Norwegian student who had a particularly animated relationship with the natural world. “I would go and visit her in Norway, and she would talk to the rocks and the mountains,”  says Ikonen, who speaks in a melodic accent……”

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