Confabulations

RODLAND, Torbjorn

ISBN 10: 1910164631 / ISBN 13: 9781910164631

Published by MACK, 2016

About this Item

Quarto. 8.75 x 11 in. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Fine in original cloth covered boards, gilt lettering. Signed.

Seller Inventory # 6223

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Confabulations
• Publisher: MACK
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910164631
• ISBN 13: 9781910164631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

A dictionary will tell you that confabulations are memory disturbances; the production of fabricated, distorted memories about oneself and the world, but without a conscious intention to deceive. "Subjectivity is not the master signifier of the image," writes Ina Blom of Rodland's work, "Nor is it lost in a vortex of abstractions: it is quite simply one point of connectivity among many. The camera, with its associated range of lenses, aperture settings, lighting devices, and film types, is another. [...] The emphatic sheen, sleek glamour and casual perversity still thrive, but they take on an independent existence as new textural realities - as if to speak of a material world that we can never fully know." With Confabulations, Torbjorn Rodland presents a set of analogue photographs that subtly misrepresents broken memories and childhood fantasies. Confabulations distorts facts to get to truth. Fragmentation is neither rejected nor induced in this unitary approach, but seen as a starting point for new connections. Beneath a million silly memes Rodland is looking for new soul.