Whenever I’m travelling I make a point to visit museums and I will often revisit and come back to the same ones several times, like Glyptoteket museum in Copenhagen, which is one of my favourites with its mix of 19th century architecture, antique and French sculpture and French as well as Danish painting.
I went with my parents recently to see an exhibition on the painter Sorolla but as a bonus there was also an exhibition curated by one of my all-time favourite Danish writers Josefine Klougart, about our relationship with nature in both visual arts and writing.
I would love to admit that my photographs have been influenced by the exhibition but the truth is that I took most of them before we went into those rooms and that the museum itself makes you think about the intersection between culture and nature.
This is in large part because of a magnificent domed winter garden at the centre, inviting nature inside to be cultivated alongside the collections of art and antiquities.
To say I liked the exhibition is an understatement, the way it fit perfectly with the setting but I also love that each time I revisit a place and in particular museums, I discover something I haven’t noticed before or see it in a new and different light.
- Lea