Mutable Archive is an ongoing artistic project that investigates photography and sound as process-based systems rather than fixed records. Working within a post-photographic framework, the project treats images and field recordings as mutable material—archives that can be translated, displaced, and recomposed through rule-based and temporal processes.
Departing from conventional notions of the archive as a site of preservation, Mutable Archive approaches it as an active structure shaped by mediation, repetition, and technological translation. Across still images and time-based works, the project examines how memory and perception are continuously reconfigured when images and sounds operate over time rather than resolving into stable forms.
Central to the project is a sustained engagement with landscape, understood not as representation but as a temporal and structural field. Landscapes are approached as layered constructs formed through movement, duration, and mediated perception, where photographic and sonic material functions as traces rather than documents. Through gradual abstraction and recomposition, instability and transformation become core conditions of the work.
Series V - a rule-based exploration of landscape as mutable archive.
Series V is based on photographic and sonic material collected in and around Flateyri, Iceland — a landscape marked by extremes of light, scale, and geological time. Using a self-developed, rule-based system, the series treats the landscape as a mutable archive. Across still images and moving image, the material is continuously displaced and reconfigured, allowing both space and time to function as active elements of the work.
Excerpt from the time-based work Series V (looped, ~30 sec)