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A bit of self-promotion here. I recently published my first book. A very educational experience.
You'll find some specs below and a text by Brad Feuerhelm underneath the pictures.
33 Suspensions (2023)
ISBN — 978-82-303-6097-2
Pages — 72
Cover — Hardcover
Size — 303 mm x 240 mm
Price — 40 EUR
Edition of 300 copies
Photography by Dan Skjæveland
Art Direction and Editing by Brad Feuerhelm & Dan Skjæveland
Design by Fernanda Fajardo & João Linneu (Kakkalakki)
Published as part of the Nearest Truth Editions
Available from Bildband Berlin, and currently looking to get it into stores in North America and the UK.
Reduce. Minimize. Find a common typology and seek an analogous form. Repeat. De-saturate. Enable. Meaning is derived from our capacity to invent. Imagine. Find trace and allow it to infiltrate and inform. Without drawing parallels, we seek answers in what little has been given to us. Repeat. Reduce. Imagine.
Dan Skjæveland is a Norwegian artist whose new book 33 Suspensions asks the viewer to engage with clues and cryptic signals. Slippage occurs; memories of memory. Rules are fragmented and declarations declined. Decode. Decipher. Glyphs. Numbers.
Skjæveland’s images are demarcated by muted color, potential connections.
Transparencies, reflections, smudges and remnants. Residues of an urban palette. Gradations of grey, an interplay between warm and cool. Tensions hang in the air, almost-abstraction modulating earth tone and metallic.
The viewer draws out their own meanings from the work. The images brood in an obtuse melancholy and echo American conceptual practice. To delineate a strict path of meaning would disable the work and encroach on the profane. Conceive. Deceive. Contradict.
33 Suspensions is not an exercise in willful avoidance. There is instead courage to assemble and proliferate ambiguous images, origins masked and muddied. What reality do we occupy? Skjæveland’s images shimmer in their instability. As they take form and recede, the viewer is invited into a world without absolutes.
-Brad Feuerhelm, October 2023
You'll find some specs below and a text by Brad Feuerhelm underneath the pictures.
33 Suspensions (2023)
ISBN — 978-82-303-6097-2
Pages — 72
Cover — Hardcover
Size — 303 mm x 240 mm
Price — 40 EUR
Edition of 300 copies
Photography by Dan Skjæveland
Art Direction and Editing by Brad Feuerhelm & Dan Skjæveland
Design by Fernanda Fajardo & João Linneu (Kakkalakki)
Published as part of the Nearest Truth Editions
Available from Bildband Berlin, and currently looking to get it into stores in North America and the UK.
Reduce. Minimize. Find a common typology and seek an analogous form. Repeat. De-saturate. Enable. Meaning is derived from our capacity to invent. Imagine. Find trace and allow it to infiltrate and inform. Without drawing parallels, we seek answers in what little has been given to us. Repeat. Reduce. Imagine.
Dan Skjæveland is a Norwegian artist whose new book 33 Suspensions asks the viewer to engage with clues and cryptic signals. Slippage occurs; memories of memory. Rules are fragmented and declarations declined. Decode. Decipher. Glyphs. Numbers.
Skjæveland’s images are demarcated by muted color, potential connections.
Transparencies, reflections, smudges and remnants. Residues of an urban palette. Gradations of grey, an interplay between warm and cool. Tensions hang in the air, almost-abstraction modulating earth tone and metallic.
The viewer draws out their own meanings from the work. The images brood in an obtuse melancholy and echo American conceptual practice. To delineate a strict path of meaning would disable the work and encroach on the profane. Conceive. Deceive. Contradict.
33 Suspensions is not an exercise in willful avoidance. There is instead courage to assemble and proliferate ambiguous images, origins masked and muddied. What reality do we occupy? Skjæveland’s images shimmer in their instability. As they take form and recede, the viewer is invited into a world without absolutes.
-Brad Feuerhelm, October 2023
DSkjaeve
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Quick update. Book is available from photo-eye (as soon as they receive the parcel).
Alex Prior from @photobook_reviewer posted this review recently:
A naked exposure of surface.
A quiet tension that ripples through and through like the aftershocks of an earthquake.
Somewhere between the hyperreal and lucid imaginings.
-
A shock, a shift, a silent seismic breach of our perceived visual plane.
Layers that interfere, merge, open to all interpretation.
Retracting and expanding, akin to the wraith like body of a jellyfish.
-
No beginning, no end, just an endless shifting in between.
-
Do our eyes deceive us or has the solid and the concrete become fluid and malleable, so that nothing is quite as it seems?
-
Suspended in motion, part way between the facade of pristine surface and inevitable decay.
Suspended as if frozen in place, a time capsule of past, present and an imagined future.
-
A delicate balance between an equisite state of gracile tension and collapse.
-
Sculptural presence in angular lines and undulating surfaces, in the monumentality of the banal.
Stacks of dog eared paper strain and warp under the accumulated compression. They resemble jagged jutting cliff faces or exposed strata.
-
A faint ominous undertone.
A stain here, a metallic glint there, something off centre, something else tightly wound.
Refraction and reflections that defy and deceive.
-
These images invite a heightened perception of surface, form and the subtle tensions inherent in the everyday.
We are urged to suspend any straightforward notions of what is and what should be.
Alex Prior from @photobook_reviewer posted this review recently:
A naked exposure of surface.
A quiet tension that ripples through and through like the aftershocks of an earthquake.
Somewhere between the hyperreal and lucid imaginings.
-
A shock, a shift, a silent seismic breach of our perceived visual plane.
Layers that interfere, merge, open to all interpretation.
Retracting and expanding, akin to the wraith like body of a jellyfish.
-
No beginning, no end, just an endless shifting in between.
-
Do our eyes deceive us or has the solid and the concrete become fluid and malleable, so that nothing is quite as it seems?
-
Suspended in motion, part way between the facade of pristine surface and inevitable decay.
Suspended as if frozen in place, a time capsule of past, present and an imagined future.
-
A delicate balance between an equisite state of gracile tension and collapse.
-
Sculptural presence in angular lines and undulating surfaces, in the monumentality of the banal.
Stacks of dog eared paper strain and warp under the accumulated compression. They resemble jagged jutting cliff faces or exposed strata.
-
A faint ominous undertone.
A stain here, a metallic glint there, something off centre, something else tightly wound.
Refraction and reflections that defy and deceive.
-
These images invite a heightened perception of surface, form and the subtle tensions inherent in the everyday.
We are urged to suspend any straightforward notions of what is and what should be.
DSkjaeve
Established
Some updates since my last post.
There have been a couple of reviews and articles:
C4 Journal
L’intervalle.blog
American Suburb X
Nearest Truth podcast
I've also decided to make by book available from my website, where I cover a good portion
of the actual shipping cost to make it a bit more accessible:
33 Suspensions (signed) — Dan Skjæveland
In addition to photo-eye and Bildband, one can now find the book at Setanta as well.
There have been a couple of reviews and articles:
C4 Journal
L’intervalle.blog
American Suburb X
Nearest Truth podcast
I've also decided to make by book available from my website, where I cover a good portion
of the actual shipping cost to make it a bit more accessible:
33 Suspensions (signed) — Dan Skjæveland
In addition to photo-eye and Bildband, one can now find the book at Setanta as well.
DSkjaeve
Established
It's been about a year since my last update. Things have slowed down, but glad to see there is still
some interest in the book. I'm including some recent press pieces for anyone who might want to learn
more about the work. There's also a flip-through of the publication below.
Poesía & Capitalismo (Review by Carlos Leiton, Spanish original)
Poesía & Capitalismo (Review by Carlos Leiton, English translation)
Urbanautica - Conversation with Steve Bisson
Virtual bookshelf (Josef Chladek)
Video of book
some interest in the book. I'm including some recent press pieces for anyone who might want to learn
more about the work. There's also a flip-through of the publication below.
Poesía & Capitalismo (Review by Carlos Leiton, Spanish original)
Poesía & Capitalismo (Review by Carlos Leiton, English translation)
Urbanautica - Conversation with Steve Bisson
Virtual bookshelf (Josef Chladek)
Video of book