Accumulating ice along the IJsselmeer shore, Netherlands. Almost abstract views.

It was a dark and grey day, a typical Dutch day, when I visited Urk. Urk is a small village on the eastern part of largest lake in the Netherlands (the IJsselmeer). It had been freezing for two weeks, so large areas were frozen before the temperature started to rise. The ice partly melted and was broken into pieces. Strong westwinds piled up all the drift-ice on the eastern shore of the IJsselmeer. It is a very rare phenomenon which looks bizarre, not in the least when the temperatures are above 10°C. The ice seemed to give light because the water, the sky and the dike were so dark that day.

Ingeborg Klarenberg (Munich, 1988) lives in The Netherlands. Her work is filled with the landscapes we live in, the landscapes we destroy to live, landscapes we cannot destroy and landscapes we cannot live in. It is about the constant struggle to control everything and especially our surrounding.

Ingeborg Klarenberg