On any given day, a small encounter can take place between seemingly coincidental components. Like a wordless poem, the light settles in a specific way, or in a moment of luck a sculpture emerges from fortuitous objects. At times one can create it by oneself - by chasing the light, or placing a flower onto a dead seal. Some need to be in love to spot these encounters between light and materials, while others are gifted with a particular eye for these recurring images. This exhibition ties together the photographic archives of Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdóttir and Rebecca Larsson, generated by each of them separately over the past decade.

The word photography, with its Greek origin, can be translated to drawing with light. This seems ubiquitous in the analogue photographs of Elísabet and Rebecca; these are moments captured on film - photographs made by the markings of light onto the negative. Rather than a story with a linear narrative or a particular message, the exhibition ‘Hennes ögon blinkade snabbt snabbt snabbt’ is a sensory movement through atmospheres and transient moments – like small testimonies of something which arose, was seen and in an instant was given certain value.

Linnea Frandsen 

(translated from Danish to English by Rebecca Lindsmyr)