THE WHITE - Honourable Mention Europan Norway

‘The Myth is dying. It is about to be defeated. There is a war between two worlds: Rationality and Myth.’ With reference to Adorno and Horkheimer, The White evokes a historical and mythological dimension of the High North in the European imagination. An expedition is made beyond the Kingdom of Reason to measure new territory, designating a northern odyssey in space and time between mythology and rationality. […]

The project brings a substantial amount of interesting momentum into the discussion of Vardø’s future, and ‘The Choice of Myth’. The White recognises the duality of mythology and rationality, the role they both place in driving human behaviour and the impact of myth in the context of Vardø – a city on the border of both worlds.  …