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POCKET PHOTOS

Øjeblikket / The Moment

SAK Kunstbygning, Svendborg, Denmark
24.02.2023 - 26.03.2023

Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark
09.03.2024 - 07.04.2024

Press release

Pocket Photos challenges our view of what a camera is and what a photo is. Laila Svensgaard carried various pieces of unexposed photographic paper in her pockets to examine the pocket as a camera. The photo paper was exposed by the light that penetrated her pockets and has made abstract impressions on the paper. Abstract images of fabric, body and movement in time and space.

In our digitally mediated age, photographs are something most often experienced on a screen and in a hectic flow, where one image replaces the other. The images have neither body nor form, they are digital algorithms of light projected directly onto our retinas. Today we see images with our eyes, we do not experience them with our bodies. Pocket Photos, with their analogue form and time-consuming process, stand in stark contrast to the fleeting and formless digital images of our time. With Pocket Photos invites the viewer to reflect on the technology of the photographic medium, and its relationship with the human body, and questions how photography affects our way of experiencing and understanding the world?

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