TORBJØRN RØDLAND – “NOW IT SOBS, NOW IT SINGS”
2024-09-30Why are you reading this? What is it that makes these photographs in need of words, or what burdens the taking of photographs with the responsibility to tell? What has us looking for an explanation elsewhere rather than be looking at the photograph again? What is it that it invites? What is seen, what is sensed, what is ever so slightly shifted when returning to these familiar forms; the baby portrait, the couple’s embrace, or the accident that had the ball flying over the fence and cracking the windshield?
What were the chances? What did the insurance claim report read? Where do we take it from here (now that the car is unfit for the road)? How do we get unstuck? How do we infuse these known objects, faces and bodies with something unknown? How do we instil the still life with a liveliness? How do we erode the expectations of the portrait genre when arranging yet another headshot? How can we alter what matters? How can we allow for magic to occur from matters of facts?
Opposite – Unboxing a Model Family, 2022
Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2024
STANDARD (OSLO)
Waldemar Thranes Gt 86 C
N-0175 Oslo
Norway
