Miami Project 2014
Bright Matter - Part II - Booth # 829 featuring works from Lab[au], Numen / For Use, Joanie Lemercier, James Minden, Nonotak & Francois Wunschel
December 2 – 7, 2014
Ole Brodersen's photographic work focuses on landscapes and the forces of nature that affect them. With that, he tries to reveal something more than the purely optical visual: to capture the feeling of being present in these landscapes, by creating impressions in, with or through movement and time.
Brodersen lives and works in Lyngør, a car free island society off the Norwegian southern coast, where he grew up as the twelfth generation in his family. Ole's father is a sailmaker, his grandfather was a sailor, and as a child Ole rowed to school. He has also circumnavigated the Atlantic Ocean in a pilot cutter built in 1894. His heritage, experiences, Lyngør's history, everyday life and the future here – are entangled with the sea. This is the basis for, and influences Ole‘s pictorial experiments.
Photographic technology has enabled a unique interaction between the human eye and mechanical optics; to make the invisible visible. Ole points the camera at nature and let the forces of nature come into view, through changing horizon lines, overlapping cloud formations and layered wave patterns. Through long exposures, or by collecting several exposures from the same subject in one image, the time and movements that activate the landscape are fixed in his photographic work. The intention is to convey an experience of being somewhere, and sensing what surrounds you. To approach this, Ole leaves some of the control over the final result to the forces of nature.
By shedding light on challenges surrounding the climate and oceans, landscape photography can open up discussions that put both scientific, social, political and cultural matters on the agenda. Precisely because the forces of nature and time are given room to play in Ole‘s work, this can contribute to making visible how climate change manifests itself through the sea, through registrations that are otherwise too marginal to be perceived by the human sensory apparatus.
Ole studied art direction, photography and has been the assistant to Dag Alveng (i.e. MOMA and the Met.) Brodersen was recently acquired by the Norwegian National Museum of Photography, and his last shows abroad was a group show at the Flowers Gallery in London, and a solo show in Venice. He has also exhibited in i.e. Boston, Paris, New York and Los Angeles - together with i.e. Tom Sandberg, Pentti Sammallahti, Pixy Liao and Simen Johan. The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine have written about his work.