Mirage

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Series of archival pigment prints, dimensions variable, 2022-2024.

The photographs in the series Mirage recall images of memory and imagination. Reminiscent of pictorialism, they seemingly capture the atmosphere or felt impression of a landscape over time. Trees appear phantom-like, similar to ephemeral cloud formations, composed by infinite tiny particles of vapour, ready to dissipate back into space.

Ultimately, the works evoke the contentless background in which all things materialise and dissolve, akin to the camera film or digital sensor onto which scenes are temporarily recorded – or the silent field where all sounds emerge and fade away. By means of their very fleeting character, these nature views point to such ever-present and yet eluding quality or essence.

The series was initially shot during an artist’s residency in the High Coast of Sweden, an area renowned for having, over the course of millennia, gradually risen above sea level.

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“A bodhisattva should regard all livings beings as a wise man regards the reflection of the moon in water or as magicians regard men created by magic. He should regard them as being like a face in a mirror; like the water of a mirage."

Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra