This region of the Islandic fjord was deserted by its population after the Second World War. The farmers, attracted by a rising modernity in town, have abandoned their lands and farms. At that time, the construction of the military bases in this pre-arctic area was also one of the trigger elements of this drift from the land.
For Johanne Verbockhaven, photographer and PhD student (Photography & Anthropology), this
socio-historical event became an anthropological and artistic fieldwork carried out in the Laboratoire
d’Anthopologie Prospective (LAAP) of the Université Catholique de Louvain-la- Neuve ( Belgique).
During the first 15 days of the exhibition, Johannen Verbockhaven, will work in the exhibition areas. It will result from it a multidisciplinary environment (photographs, sounds, videos, ...).