BLINDSPOTS

Denne siden inneholder et utvalg bilder fra serien «Blindspots» , og er en søknad om visningsplass for disse bildene. Jeg har jobbet med dette prosjektet de siste fem årene og bilder herfra har kun vært vist i begrenset omfang på Høstutstillingen, det kunstnerdrevne galleriet NoPlace og Blomqvist Kunsthandel. Bildene er reine fotografier, straight photography, av glassobjekter fotografert i hardt sidelys, og de er i utgangspunktet tenkt å produseres i to størrelser: ca 100 x 135 cm og ca 50 x 66 cm.


«Blindspots» er en serie fotografier som beskriver hvordan et hardt sidelys passerer gjennom objekter av varierende opasitet, og etterlater et eget landskap av skygger, som et fordreid avtrykk av materien. Objektenes varierende gjennomskinnelighet skaper et uforutsigbart skyggespill. Selv det vi tenker på som gjennomsiktig kaster skygge. Linseelementene som er avbildet er fra gamle fotoforstørrelsesapparater, andre er fra briller, noe som på en direkte måte handler om det å se og å gjengi det som har vært sett. Bildene beskriver derfor på mange måter også selve den fotografiske prosessen. Prismene er brukt i fysikkundervisning, med hensikt å vise hvordan lysetbrytes til et fargespektrum, og gjennom å bryte lyset opp i sine enkelte bestanddeler, dechiffrerer de det skarpe lysets nøkterne, nådeløse og nakne mekanikk. Det er noe ubønnhørlig og sorgtungt over uforsonligheten som ligger i det usentimentale, avslørende lyset. Noe sant.

“Blind Spots” is a series of photographs of objects that have an industrial past, but no longer an obvious purpose. It is a study of how these objects get penetrated by an exact sidelight, leaving behind a landscape of shadows, as distorted traces of matter. Things are more or less opaque and their shadows are therefore unpredictable. Even things we think of as completely transparent cast shadows. We see dust and dirt and scratches, in short the deposition of time. Such is the mechanism of light.
There is a sadness in this naked light. Because of things past, because of the relentless now, the beauty of what is forgettable and forgotten. But as a result of this sadness, there is also love, its twin sister, as it were. Love seeks truth, in my view, and living in truth amounts to having the courage to see things as they are and accept them as they are.
Some of the lenses in the photographs are elements from old enlargers. Others are from worn glasses. In either case, the pictures bear witness to the act of seeing and of rendering what has been seen. In a sense, they are evidence of the photographic process itself. The prisms in the photographs decipher the sidelight by breaking it into its elements, and this is the very light without which we cannot see the world at all, nor render it as we see it.


Send meg en mail på m@jomichael.no eller ring/meld meg på 90056015 om du lurer på noe eller er interessert i dette prosjektet.

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