Nikolaj's Lower Gallery presented Marco Evaristti's landscape trilogy Red Factions. Through photo and video this exhibition documented Marco Evaristti's three landscape projects from 2004 to 2008, in which he used dye to make his interventions in places that condense Western notions of unspoilt nature: the icebergs of the Polar region, the highest mountain peaks, and the desert. In 2004, he thus braved temperatures of 23 degrees below zero to pour out 3,000 litres of red dye over an iceberg in Greenland and then declare the iceberg his own. This sparked a heated discussion of the role and limitations of art (or the the lack of any), the pollution caused by the dye, and the apparent meaninglessness of this action. Subsequently, Evaristti performed related interventions at the Mont Blanc and in the Sahara Desert.
With the exhibition Red Factions Marco Evaristti has added a new meaning to the concept of landscape painting, in which the painting takes place directly on the landscape, with Evaristti, instead of depicting the landscape, engaging in a direct interaction with it. His project points both to our notions and representations of the unspoilt nature, and to the
disproportion between his interventions, quickly vanished as they are, and the far more radical and lasting damages to nature caused by Western civilization. At the same time, Evaristti through his Pink State project addresses the way we understand the concept of territory.