Torbjørn Rødland-White Planet, Black Heart

Torbjørn Rødland-White Planet, Black Heart

Publisher's Description: "Torbjørn Rødland is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop music: a master of the delicately orchestrated clichée overload, a surcharge of the too obvious, too cute or too inane, played to the point where the images are drained of all trace of common sense and suggest a new sense of silence or mystery.
Rødland has a knack for producing images that make you ask what are, in fact, appropriate motives for art photography: Images of single audio or video cassettes? Bleak black and white renditions of countryside churches? George W. Bush’s favourite ice cream? A black banana? Girls and pets, pets and girls? He creates a complex of readings that inveigles the viewer into spending time with each single image, to reconsider its meaning and relevance. White Planet, Black Heart makes no excuses as it reinvents the romantic impulses of popular culture."

Location: 3rd Floor
Call No: TR655 .R63 (2006)
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© Torbjørn Rødland

© Torbjørn Rødland

© Torbjørn Rødland

Roe Ethridge- Rockaway, NY

Roe Ethridge- Rockaway, NY

Publisher's Description: "The mood of Roe Ethridge’s Rockaway, NY suggests a nostalgic depiction of scenes from a coastal village. The snow covered boardwalk, the cemetery, the shops in town, and a quiet street in late summer all appear at first glance to be genre scenes, revealing Ethridge’s casual application of diverse pictorial modes and themes. The locales blend, imitate and disguise one another. Photographed in disparate geographical sites, from St Barts to upstate New York, Ethridge plays the roles of both a thematic archivist and a wandering narrator, mappin an uncertain ground in which it is unclear if the representation is a blank image, nothing more than the sum of it’s surface, or the fountainhead of some deeper significance."

Kate Bush writes of Ethridge "In his work there appears no cause and no ending, no discrimination between editorial and art, between document and construct, between technology and affect."

Location: Over Collection 4th Floor

Call No: TR655 .E84 (2007)

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© Roe Ethridge

© Roe Ethridge

© Roe Ethridge