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Erik Gustafsson "A House of Clay"
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Erik Gustafsson
This exhibition and book signing commemorates the release of Swedish photographer/artist Erik Gustafsson's photography book "A House of Clay."
Gustafsson's third book will be published by Loose Joints, an independent publishing house based between Marseille and London, known for its numerous award-winning publications. Founded in 2014 by Sarah Chaplin Espenon and Lewis Chaplin, Loose Joints has gained attention for publishing photo books by acclaimed artists such as Jack Davison, Harley Weir, Coco Capitán, Daniel Shea, Mårten Lange, and Nigel Shafran.
In Gustafsson's expressive monograph "A House of Clay," the chirping of everyday birds interacts with the cycle of creation and destruction in the darkroom.
Through "A House of Clay," Gustafsson engages in conceptual and situational photographic processes, dialoguing with simple premises and the inherent truths of photography. It is about elevating the mundane, finding meaning in the everyday, taking trivial occurrences seriously, and evoking sensations.
There is a sense of gratitude and wonder towards consciousness, senses, and emotions. Gustafsson's warm fragments of life, sometimes excessively ordinary, sometimes tenderly intimate, and later dense and complex, are digested in the darkroom. There, the technical processes of photography- shooting, printing, failures, circumventing rules, repetition, and scanning- are imposed upon the images.
Balancing consciousness and coincidence, Gustafsson's moments of magical realism speak of eternity, the eternal present. There, perpetually unfinished images can be altered, manipulated, and rewritten at any later stage.
Gustafsson's third book will be published by Loose Joints, an independent publishing house based between Marseille and London, known for its numerous award-winning publications. Founded in 2014 by Sarah Chaplin Espenon and Lewis Chaplin, Loose Joints has gained attention for publishing photo books by acclaimed artists such as Jack Davison, Harley Weir, Coco Capitán, Daniel Shea, Mårten Lange, and Nigel Shafran.
In Gustafsson's expressive monograph "A House of Clay," the chirping of everyday birds interacts with the cycle of creation and destruction in the darkroom.
Through "A House of Clay," Gustafsson engages in conceptual and situational photographic processes, dialoguing with simple premises and the inherent truths of photography. It is about elevating the mundane, finding meaning in the everyday, taking trivial occurrences seriously, and evoking sensations.
There is a sense of gratitude and wonder towards consciousness, senses, and emotions. Gustafsson's warm fragments of life, sometimes excessively ordinary, sometimes tenderly intimate, and later dense and complex, are digested in the darkroom. There, the technical processes of photography- shooting, printing, failures, circumventing rules, repetition, and scanning- are imposed upon the images.
Balancing consciousness and coincidence, Gustafsson's moments of magical realism speak of eternity, the eternal present. There, perpetually unfinished images can be altered, manipulated, and rewritten at any later stage.
Schedule | Mar 9 (Sat) 2024-Mar 20 (Wed) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Flotsam Books | ||||
| Location | 1-10-7 Izumi, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0063 | ||||
| Access | 10 minute walk from the North exit of Daitabashi Station on the Keio line. | ||||
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