Exhibition 23/5 - 30/8 2019
“Summerreminiscence”
Sommerminner - at Studio Oscar, Lillestrom - Norway
The exhibition includes works from three different series that all are based on the idea of photographing how our memory will show us an altered image when remembering the subject that is in front of our eyes in the moment. Using flowers and plants as a subject matter, the photographs depict them after they have gone through the threadmill of our synapses, stored and reworked over time and distance.
Summerreminiscence
Photographs of flowers from a summer past. Colourful memories with vague contours. I came upon the botanical gardens in full bloom one summer and missed it so the following winter. Next summer I went back and discovered how it really looked. The flowers of yesteryear will always be more beautiful, so those were the ones I wanted to capture on film.
Natural Design I
Without a camera I make direct photographic prints of the small things in nature. The things that make up the parts of the pattern in the larger landscape. The closeness to the subject when it is physically touching the film makes an imprint more natural than the fanciest lighting and filter use. The darkroom light brutally cuts through the thinner parts and draws a perfect line along all sharp contours.
Natural Design II
Flowers in a vase on the table, shadows photographed, a subject with recognizable shape but without physical form, remembered and described. A colourful portrait made through a veil of distance and memory.
