Freeze-Plates

(Nine large- size digital prints mounted on MDF-panels.)

The photographic image can be emptied of it' s narrative content and become an exclusively physical sensation. The Freeze-Plates are photographic reproductions of frigistors inside common domestic refrigerators. Dismantled from their jackets and their common purpose of cooling food, unfolded and then exposed to air humidity, the frigistors grow to fluctuating ice sculptures. I partly stained the ice crystals with colour pigments in a process of letting the original ”image” thaw and freeze again.

Nine digital prints of these reproductions in over-life size are mounted on thick MDF-panels. They build a space filling photo installation at Vaasa Art Hall in Finland (2004). The photo-objects lean against the walls throughout the exhibition room, arranged together with three refrigerators we fetched from the rubbish-dump. The installation gives an impression of a cluttered goods depot or a deserted meat locker. Sizes of the photographs are up to 3 meters high and 1,50 meters wide. The photographs are no longer perceived as such, but as frightening technical objects which seem to radiate coldness. They have no narrative content but they talk with their beautiful patterns.