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6) MÅG: In the works Brand and A Dolls House you refer to Ibsen. Tell us when you started becoming interested in Ibsen and how this has effected your work.

HCM: My moving images of A Doll’s House (2004) and Brand (2008), explore how landscape is used as metaphor in Ibsen’s work. The moving images investigate changing boundaries of landscapes, in particular winter landscapes where snow and ice constantly change the land and what lies beneath the surface is only revealed when the snow has melted. As the works were inspired by Ibsen’s texts,

the investigation lies within the use of landscape in a play and how landscape itself performs the drama. In order to investigate this, my work focuses on the landscape itself; people do not appear. When I started reading A Doll’s House, I became fascinated by the


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