Dawid, "9316"
Signed verso. Executed in 1988. Unique. Chemigram, image 15 x 20 cm. Including the artist's frame 73 x 63 cm.
Not examined out of frame. The frame shows wear and black marks.
Dawid is one of Sweden’s most notorious photographers, and was a pioneer in conceptual photography. He had his breakthrough in 1983 with the exhibition “Rost” at the Fotografiska Museum. Dawid pushes the boundaries to what is considered photography, At first glance, his images possess strong aesthetic values, but upon closer inspection, the depicted objects, which appear in all their everyday ordinariness, seem to open up anew. The images undergo a kind of metamorphosis and acquire meanings beyond the merely denoted.
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