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ömsinta terräng mot naturspegelns spirande grönska (2025)


203 x 110 cm
Archival pigment print


At a time when photography is no longer merely a medium for memory but also a tool for staging our presence on social media, our daily self-representation, and our algorithmic feeds, every image becomes both a reminder and an advertisement for ourselves. This performative gaze of our present moment—where everyday life is as much theater as it is reality—is mirrored in my practice.

At the same time, I am constantly reminded of the physical transformations in my surroundings: the shifting of the landscape, the passage of time, and the aging of the body. The duality that emerges between the last garments of childhood and the first signs of lost mobility in adulthood becomes an image of both our abilities and our limitations. It is in this tension between fiction and reality that in-between worlds emerge, reminding us of our place in time.

In this work, the sense of staging becomes even more tangible. I allow spatiality and landscape to appear as psychological and poetic spaces, where the scene becomes a borderland between the everyday and the dreamlike—the morning flies on the windowpane, the shifting of light, the still movements of the body.

My photographic worlds are not documentations, but constructions in which narratives are suggested and memories are activated. Here, the collective and the private converge, and the viewer becomes part of the scene.

Together, these practices reflect how the landscape—both internal and external—is constantly being reshaped. We encounter a duality that is at once personal and universal: the body that changes, the room that shifts, the place that is recharged.

In the staging of these experiences, the image becomes a reminder of our contemporary moment, our vulnerability, and our capacity to perceive the world as both reality and fiction.

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