Martin Jacobson

3 Sept

Martin Jacobson, Photographs

My work normally begins with locating one or more images. I search for images that in one way or another speak to questions I pose to myself. My questions often concern oppositions and transitions: the living and the dead, the light and the dark, you and me, dreaming and being awake. The ‘photographs’ that are shown here have their origins, in large measure, in a German book from the 1930s about silent film. The film stills in the book are heavily retouched, to the point of being transformed into something in between painting and photography.

They made me think of retouching in relation to make-up, make-up in relation to masking—allegory—mime—dumbshow—contact—tactile—light—shadow.”

Power Ekroth

Power Ekroth (SWE/NO) is an independent curator and critic. She is a founding editor of the recurrent publication SITE. She works as an Art Consultant/Curator for KORO, Public Art Norway and for the Stockholm City Council in Sweden. She is the Artistic Director of the MA-program of the Arts and Culture at NOVIA University of Applied Sciences, Jakobstad, Finland.