Erik Osberg 'RAM'
September 9-October 8, 2011
Laroche/Joncas is very pleased to present an exhibition of recent photographs and a short film by Erik Osberg. This is the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery.
'This September at Laroche/Joncas, my work will be presented, for the first time, in a one-person exhibition. Titled RAM, the exhibition not only marks an important step in any artist’s career, of having the public view one’s work entirely on its own, but in my case, it is also a return to Montréal, the city where my creative aspirations were initially molded.
The work presented in RAM will showcase some of what I’ve ventured in the past year and will take the shape of three distinct parts: a series of wall-mounted photographic prints, a collection of photo albums each containing 50 or so snapshots, and a short film, projected in the gallery space.
The wall-mounted photographs are selected images from an ongoing group of pictures that I have steadily produced since arriving in Glasgow. They function not just as impressions of a new home, which for the most part they are, but also as a navigational timeline of experiencing a place that has long been an absent yet defining feature of me.
The photo albums contain within themselves a few hundred liberally executed pictures, documenting the occasions of my last ten months, impelled by the purchase of a point and shoot 35mm camera: the Olympus Mju II. The notion that we are inundated with representational information or that there are innumerable pictures in the world has long been of interest to me as an idea of artistic investigation, but not until recently did I come to appreciate that my maintained interest in making images, despite my aforementioned hyperawareness of the general over abundance of them, is an equally fruitful basis for enquiry.
The short film is made from footage I collected on a four-day trip to the Isle of Skye. It features – for the most part – my six travel companions, the rural property where we stayed, our daily goings on, and the gargantuan landscape of northwestern Scotland. It is edited and presented exclusive of the diagetic sound and in a matter that flirts equally with its status as a document and a bit of poetry.'
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