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Torbjørn Rødland

Torbjørn Rødland – The Model

5 November 2017 in Books Comment

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Torbjørn Rødland
The Model

In The Model, Torbjørn Rødland examines one of the defining principles of his approach to photography: that the notion and meaning of ‘the model’ is open-ended. Hyper-aware that we view the world through endless filters that arbitrate our relationship with people, objects and images, from the mid 1990s Rødland’s photography has sought to penetrate postmodern surfaces in order to redefine the possibilities of psychological, erotic and spiritual subjectivity and interconnectivity. He attempts to tap into subliminal thoughts and feelings through images that are both sensual and cerebral.

Synthesizing an array of photographic genres and approaches The Model comprises elements of critical appropriation, diaristic snapshot, reportage, commercial and staged photography – all strung together by the iconic face of Polish actress and fashion model Malgosia Bela. The book brings together pictures of Malgosia made over a ten-year period in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London, Warsaw, Oslo and Lofoten. In Rødland’s words, “We see her interacting with pictures, becoming pictures, being pictures.” Serving as an experiment in photographic language and code, each image elicits a response that equivocates between alienation and intimacy. With this in mind, The Model can also be seen as a love letter to both a medium and to a mediated woman.

128 pages
75 colour plates
8 duotone plates
18.5 cm x 22.8 cm

Mack Books

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Torbjørn Rødland – Confabulations

17 June 2016 in Books Comment

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Torbjørn Rødland
Confabulations

A dictionary will tell you that confabulations are memory disturbances; the production of fabricated, distorted memories about oneself and the world, but without a conscious intention to deceive.

“Subjectivity is not the master signifier of the image,” writes Ina Blom of Rødland’s work, “Nor is it lost in a vortex of abstractions: it is quite simply one point of connectivity among many. The camera, with its associated range of lenses, aperture settings, lighting devices, and film types, is another. […] The emphatic sheen, sleek glamour and casual perversity still thrive, but they take on an independent existence as new textural realities – as if to speak of a material world that we can never fully know.”

With Confabulations, Torbjørn Rødland presents a set of analogue photographs that subtly misrepresents broken memories and childhood fantasies. Confabulations distorts facts to get to truth. Fragmentation is neither rejected nor induced in this unitary approach, but seen as a starting point for new connections. Beneath a million silly memes Rødland is looking for new soul.

112 pages
64 colour plates
21.6 cm x 28 cm

Publication date: June 2016

Mack Books

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Sasquatch Century – Torbjørn Rødland

30 January 2015 in Photography Comment

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Torbjørn Rødland: Sasquatch Century from Mousse Publishing

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Vanilla Partner – Torbjørn Rødland

24 January 2015 in Photography Comment

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Black Ducati – Torbjørn Rødland

4 November 2014 in Photography Comment

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Torbjørn Rødland

4 October 2014 in Photography Comment

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