‘This Is the Time’ – a photographic experiment in 21 chapters by Danish artist Absalon Kirkeby, appearing at Kehrer Publishing
This Is Doubt, Neglecting Death, This Is Magic, This Is the Garden … are a few of the names of the 21 chapters in ‘This Is the Time’, each divided into fourteen images, describing life stages and emotions vis-à-vis the spiritual and material aspects of human existence.
Absalon Kirkeby’s photography is like an engine, intensifying and experimenting with the connection between the photographic world and that outside to develop ever-new visual registers, continuously challenging and pushing the boundaries of phenomenology and ethics of the medium.
“The artist’s creative process entails in part keeping himself awake for several days at a time when he is photographing. This induces a trance-like state of consciousness, similar to that between waking and sleep. Focus and sensibility become distorted, colors and reality intertwined,” Peter Amby Gallery tells us, which has just presented the artist’s second solo exhibition.
Absalon Kirkeby (* 1983) is a Danish artist, who lives and works in Copenhagen. Kirkeby is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, the Goldsmiths College and the Zurich University of the Arts.
Published by Morten Bo, designed by Louis Montes
Large-format softcover, 26 x 37 cm, 640 pages, 294 color photos
English, ISBN 978-3-96900-142-4, € 89.00
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