TORBJØRN RØDLAND
2017-11-13Over the last two decades, Torbjørn Rødland has created a body of images in which precision and critical rigor are finely laced with an improvisational and tactile intensity. Evading the reach of language, his subtly double-edged allegories make visible a broad spectrum of sensory experience, as well as physical and emotional exchange, coalescing at his work’s center the unpredictable physicality of our world.
Each reveling in visual detail, eliciting an almost iconoclastic charge, the works in this exhibition continue to expose layers of pleasure, discomfort, and pain lurking beneath the surface of aesthetic experience. Created not according to—and not to be read according to—a single interpretive framework, Rødland’s images are rather dependent on a willingness to grapple with the diversity of life as a constantly evolving system, where physical phenomena, emotional reaction, and cultural exchange can shift and take precedence over one another at any given moment. Operating between these divergent modes—and between ever-negotiated social contexts—psychological meaning and moral weight rise and fall away from each scene and its meticulous surface.
Opposite – Crossed Confections, 2015
Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2017
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
39 Great Jones Street
NY 10012 New York
