N.O.N. (Narrative of Nothing) is a work created for an exhibition at the Danske Grafikeres Hus. It consists of a series of nine large lithographic prints depicting compositions with smartphones, digital images and screenshots created with a smartphone camera, as well as five small lithographic stone objects.
Sept. 2024
An overall urge to document our lives is made very easy by the means of modern technology, and the creation of personal memories has a compulsive side that I am interested in.
Using a transfer process and working with lithography is a deliberate decision to take the longest possible way to reproduce those images that were created fleetingly and without much consideration – like we all do with our smartphones. The way we produce millions of images everyday that disappear further back into our camera rolls.
Working with this particular printing technique allows me to shave off different layers of information from an image with every practical step in preparation for the print, thus creating a subjective and distorted version of reality.
On one hand, the work deals with the overflow of visual material that we are used to consume and create. On the other hand, the compositions are gathering images in different categories in order to construct a visual topography of a semi-fictional character, a narrative that can be read in different ways but can also sum up to nothing.
