Stig Eklund
Synonym
Stig Ecklund
* 1976 in Bergen auf Rügen / Deutschland
Stig Eklund was born in Bergen, Norway in 1976. He has lived and worked in Detroit since 2004.
An undiagnosed dyslexic, Stig Eklund left Secondary education at the age of sixteen. He spent his remaining teen years working at a cardboard factory in his home town. During that time, utilizing the materials at hand, he began to make and experiment with several pinhole cameras. The work from these rudimentary cameras developed into dark, moody photographs. He has remarked that he can only see "right" through a camera lens....
Eklund's mature camera style is so strong that it can even shroud a street lamp, so that, instead of light, it seemingly emits darkness and shadows. His vision drapes geometrically clashing urban beauty with the sooty persona of its denizens, succinctly captured by a Norwegian artist who spends much of the year in Detroit's glowering twilight.
[Quelle: http://jefbourgeau.com]
- 2010 Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
- 2008 Changing Cities. Detroit - Bregenz, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle
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