Stefanie Loveday’s exhibition To Sink and To Cave, on view at Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre’s foyer gallery, examines the impermanence of water sources. With photographs and sound recordings, the work explores the waterways as places of transformation.
The photographs from the Aletsch Glacier in the Alps, Lake Cerknica in the Karst Plateau, and the Dead Sea, show glimpses of these momentary places, where ephemeral landscapes are revealed under receding glaciers and disappearing lakes, and shorelines collapse into sinkholes. The audio was recorded in Križna cave in the Cerknica Karst Field, an ice cave under the Aletsch Glacier, and a cave in an old limestone quarry under Jerusalem. The audio recording documents a performative interaction modifying the sounds of water drops with a found piece of metal and natural objects, contact microphones, feedback and distortion. The exhibition consists of several large scale photographs, a sound work accessible via QR code, and a small booklet about the project.
Loveday’s artistic approach is largely based on site specific objects and environments, recording imprints through multiple media formats—found objects, sound, video and photography. Beginning with inspiration through landscape, materiality and ecologies, her work responds to the immediacy of the environment, as well as to ecological and sociopolitical impacts on the land, including local production and resource use.
Stefanie Loveday
To Sink and To Cave
1.2.2025-30.3.2025
Photo North –Nordic Photographic Centre, Foyer Gallery