About the works of Östlund
When the authority and appeal of the image has been threatened to its ultimate predicament, the master of photography must instinctively turn along the path back to the roots. To the camera obscura effect and its discovery.
Where the smallest ray of light was offered a passage so thin that all the paradoxical components of light were forced to reorganize themselves, as in the beginning’s first encounter with the astonished human eye. In the uncorrupted process that made man’s visual experience an invitation of light and meaning.
The experienced photographer’s trust in, and attraction to, the innermost elements of the images, as another perspective for man’s eternal return to the insight into his life.
Whatever is on these Peter Östlund’s panting plates among the ultimate building blocks of light, they do not form collages in any other sense than the unique constructions of all images, the original forms, impossible to see through. Impossible to cover with lies.
Martin Goldbeck-Löwe
Filmmaker and curator