"#6144" from the series RAN, 2000
Signed on verso. Printed in 2002. Vintage. Edition 1/2. Gelatin silver print on baryta paper, image 19 x 24 cm. Including the original frame executed by the photographer 49.5 x 55 cm.
Eyubi, Stockholm, 2003.
Nordic Light Festival of Photography, Kristiansand, 2010.
Dawid is one of Sweden’s most notorious photographers, and was a pioneer in conceptual photography. He had his breakthrough in 1983 with the exhibition “Rost” at the Fotografiska Museum. Dawid pushes the boundaries to what is considered photography, At first glance, his images possess strong aesthetic values, but upon closer inspection, the depicted objects, which appear in all their everyday ordinariness, seem to open up anew. The images undergo a kind of metamorphosis and acquire meanings beyond the merely denoted.
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