Ola Rindal, Stains and Ashes #31, 2025 - Courtesy of the artist and Fotografia Europea.
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Stains and Ashes
30/04/2026 - 14/06/2026
Fotografia Europea
Cloisters of San Pietro
via Emilia San Pietro, 44/c
Reggio Emilia
https://www.fotografiaeuropea.it/mostre/ola-rindal/#
This project began precisely with a stain on a piece of cloth: from an act of observation. I photographed that stain. Then I created new ones, on paper, using ink. I continued and developed this theme with photos and drawings, until I began to include blurred, sometimes almost abstract portraits. And then landscapes that could support the resulting sensation, as if the subjects were close to the camera, yet separated by a veil. Blur and abstraction are part of the very nature of photography, just like its ability to capture sharp images. A blurry image is often seen as a failure: I, however, use this characteristic to express a sense of distance, the feeling of being unable to get closer, of being unable to understand. As if reality were slipping away. Blur presents itself as movement, a fog, an interference, a sense of uneasiness, which hides something of what we see, and which appears as a memory or a subconscious image.
30/04/2026 - 14/06/2026
Fotografia Europea
Cloisters of San Pietro
via Emilia San Pietro, 44/c
Reggio Emilia
https://www.fotografiaeuropea.it/mostre/ola-rindal/#
This project began precisely with a stain on a piece of cloth: from an act of observation. I photographed that stain. Then I created new ones, on paper, using ink. I continued and developed this theme with photos and drawings, until I began to include blurred, sometimes almost abstract portraits. And then landscapes that could support the resulting sensation, as if the subjects were close to the camera, yet separated by a veil. Blur and abstraction are part of the very nature of photography, just like its ability to capture sharp images. A blurry image is often seen as a failure: I, however, use this characteristic to express a sense of distance, the feeling of being unable to get closer, of being unable to understand. As if reality were slipping away. Blur presents itself as movement, a fog, an interference, a sense of uneasiness, which hides something of what we see, and which appears as a memory or a subconscious image.