KAPERLAK presents 25 figures from my subconscious projected onto the outside world and captured with the camera. The images of the figures are digitally processed to recreate the feeling that was present at the time of the photograph.

As a photographic artist, I work mainly in the documentary genre, meaning I strive not to alter the image so much that it becomes distorted and the original can no longer be distinguished. Instead, I try to enhance the image in every way during the processing stage, so that the original vision emerges. 

The subconscious search for an identity – the creation of identity – has been present in my artistic work as a photographer, composer of electronic music and filmmaker since the 80s.

I live and work in Stockholm and have exhibited individually and in groups in Sweden and abroad. I have collaborated with other artists in joint projects such as performance art, composing electronic music, making short films, curating exhibitions, photographing dance but also architecture and lighting design and working with graphic form.

KAPERLAK = time of darkness (Greenlandic for the 3 months of the year when the sun does not rise)

Olof Thiel

The music in the exhibition is composed by Lars Åkerlund.

PROGRAM

Olof Thiel will show three films in the Auditorium:

1/ SKEEENDEN 5 minutes
In the form of a visual Haiku poem, over time structured as a cinematic sculpture, these short films unfold with symbolic representations in the genre of "subconscious" documentary.

2/ RESPIT 13 minutes
This experimental short film was made as a homage to composer Tommy Zwedberg who passed away in 2021.

3/ STONE PORTAL 11 minutes
In the form of a visual Haiku poem, over time structured as a cinematic sculpture, these short films unfold with symbolic representations in the genre of "subconscious" documentary.

Film screening date: Saturdays September 3 and September 24 at 1:30-2:00 PM
Location: Auditorium