"Some light does not make it all the way through the atmosphere, but scatters"
October 1, 2015
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1/10 – 7/11, 2015
Galleri Fagerstedt
Stockholm
Some light does not make it all the way through the atmosphere, but scatters is an essayistic story about sunlight, photographs’ relationship to the reality and the gesture of photography. I am interested about the photographic expression that the light defines – in other words – what is the “language” of the light itself, and how the light can get painterly properties in a picture?
The title of the exhibition is a quote of Rebeca Solnit’s novel A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Solnit refers to the physical phenomena that happens when sunlight enters the atmosphere: the short wavelengths, green, blue and violet, scatter more than longer wavelengths and therefore the sky is blue. Color blue is often considered as the color of distance and longing – the further things are in the horizon, the bluer they seem.
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