Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery (29 September -19 November 2017). Torbjørn Rødland constructs portraits, still lifes and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit and defamiliarise the realm of the everyday. With a highly constructed and at times fetishistic approach to subjects, objects and materials, Rødland makes photographs that are formally acute, conceptually playful and psychologically evocative. Characterised by their double-edged allegories and underlying lyricism, Rødland's staged scenarios “keep you in the process of looking”, simultaneously revealing layers of discomfort and pleasure. This accompnaying publication offers new and fresh lenses through which to view the artist's work. Walead Beshty's text, titled “Skin Flicks”, focuses on Rødland's unique approach to surfaces, Julie Boukobza considers a number of works in the exhibition by building fictive narratives around them, whilst Diane Nguyen stages a surreal and winding narrative performance through Rødland's image repertoire. Bob Nickas' essay, “Fifteen Years Later” draws upon the experience of looking at Rødland's photographs and provides a visual map of their complex system of symbols, signs and gestures.
Details
Nguyen Diane (Article author), Beshty Walead (Article author), Nickas Bob (Article author), Boukobza Julie (Article author), Peel Yana (Preface), Obrist Hans Ulrich (Preface)
London
2018
168 pages
9783960982371
Available on request
Yes
No
770.9 Rod
1
- Dieter Blum: Cathedrals of the Body / Дитер Блюм: Тело и вдохновение2004
- Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis2013
- Леонард Джанадо. Moscou 1957 Москва2010
- Fact or Fiction, Roger Ballen2003
- Karl Lagerfeld: Moderne Mythologie2009
- Thomas Demand: House of Card2020
- Frantisek Drtikol: Portraits2007
- Harvey Benge: All the Places I've Ever Known2010
- Dorothea Lange: The Politics of Seeing2018
- Album#2008
- Eugène Atget: el París de 1900/ el Paris del 19001991
- Henri Cartier‑Bresson2010