True Nature: Christina Capetillo’s black-and-white landscape photographs at DAC
Exhibition
May 24, 2024 - Feb 23, 2025
The exhibition True Nature in 2024 presented 25 black-and-white landscape photographs by artist and architect Christina Capetillo, focusing on human-made landscapes—from fire ponds and storage terrains to coastal protection and replacement nature.
Fire dam. Depot landscape. Flood barriers. Visual artist and architect Christina Capetillo is fascinated by the man-made landscape that characterizes our contemporary world. You could experience her pragmatic yet poetic black and white landscape photographs in the exhibition True Nature.
Close your eyes and imagine a landscape. There is probably quite a clash between the ideal landscape that would come to mind and the ‘real’ nature encountered in Christina Capetillo’s photos. They challenged our notions of untouched nature, which soon may no longer exist. In Denmark, for example, there is only 2.5% wild nature left – and the human impact on nature is becoming increasingly evident.
Note!
This was a small-scale photo exhibition, open on weekends.
From Japan to Lolland
The exhibition featured 25 of Christina Capetillo’s photos from all over Denmark, as well as from Japan, Spain, and Germany. These were images of man-made landscapes, such as a forest plantation where new trees were planted in a completely barren place in Japan, or a ranger terrain in Lolland, where individual small pine trees stood like lonely creatures. It is a landscape devoid of humans that we encountered in the exhibition’s photos – yet at the same time, humanity was very much present, as the hand that had shaped it.
Photo: Dansk Arkitektur Center (DAC)
Photo: Dansk Arkitektur Center (DAC) 
About Christina Capetillo
Christina Capetillo is a Danish photo-based visual artist and architect who is fascinated by the relationship between architecture, landscape, and photography. Capetillo’s work has been shown in a large number of Danish and international group and solo exhibitions, most recently at Møstings Hus and at Rudolph Tegner’s Museum. She has published several books with her works and is represented in private and public collections. Capetillo received the Eckersberg Medal and the Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year working grant in 2015 and has carried out several public commissions for museums and cultural institutions.
Photo: Dansk Arkitektur Center (DAC)
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What was True Nature?
True Nature was a photo exhibition featuring Christina Capetillo’s black-and-white landscape photographs of human-made environments.
When did the exhibition take place?
The exhibition ran from 24 May 2024 to 23 Feb 2025.
What kinds of landscapes did the exhibition focus on?
The exhibition focused on human-made landscapes such as fire ponds, storage terrains, coastal protection and replacement nature.
How many works were included, and where were they from?
The exhibition included 25 photographs from many parts of Denmark as well as Japan, Spain and Germany.
How did the exhibition frame “nature” versus common expectations?
The photographs challenged the idea of untouched nature and noted that only 2.5% of wild nature remains in Denmark.
What should I know if I only read one thing?
True Nature (24 May 2024–23 Feb 2025) presented 25 black-and-white photos of people-less landscapes that were nonetheless clearly shaped by human hands, challenging the idea of “untouched” nature.