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VECK
AVATAR
VENUS.NOT
ASCIIBESQUES
NIGHT TRAIN
WOMAN WITH ASCII DOG
IN MINNA'S KITCHEN

 

 

 

 

   

 

VECK

2008, 50 cm x 37.5 cm, lamda mounted on acryl & DiBond,

   



 

AVATARS

2008, Lamda, framed, 15 x 25 cm

   

 

ASCIIBESQUES

series of x lamda prints, 24 x 18 cm, 2007- (ongoing, expanding)

In this series, abstract text consisting of ascii signs and internet slang is superimposed on photographs of reflections in the streets.

   

 

VENUS.NOT

2008, series o 4 lamda mounted on acryl & DiBond, 100 x 60 cm, 2008

I’m working with a series of digitally manipulated photos based on classical sculptures. The object, or part of the object is prolonged and distorted until it assumes a new identity. In a similar way I work with images based on snapshots from an everyday environment.

   

 

 

NIGHT TRAIN

8 photographs, 2007, 18 x 24 cm

This haunting series of images depicts a moment when the laws of physics suddenly seem to change or shift. The curtains, which cover sleeping persons in a nighttime train ride, appear to have their own will and emotions in a drama of attraction and repulsion.

Image below from the exhibition Gravity at Vox Populi, 2007

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

WOMAN WITH ASCII DOG
lamda print, 80 x 80 cm, 2006

I’ve always been fascinated in the fact that people have an urge to communicate their visual ideas in environments which in one way or another limit the expression. When traditional tools are missing, whatever mean available is used, like tooth-paste in prisons as a drawing tool, dirt as face paint, or ascii, which consists of letters, numerals and punctuation marks used in computers as a programming tool. In the end of the 90ties I started to collect sms-messages sent around as jokes from mobile phones to mobile phones. This was a time before the built-in cameras and people got creative with the simple signs available. Later I animated some of the messages in video works. Now I use the same idea in still photos.

 

   

 

 

IN MINNA'S KITCHEN
2002, four lamda prints, 50 x 75 cm