R Open

R Open

Curated by - R Gallery, Mark Sullivan & Kathrine Maj.

For this residency, the gallery becomes both studio and darkroom, a place where images are not only displayed but also produced. Over six weeks, a sequence of black-and-white photographs will take shape, printed by hand in real time. What unfolds is not simply a body of work, but a process in which making and showing are inseparable.

The photographs stem from a domestic studio that doubles as a living space, where the routines of daily life merge with the conditions of artistic production. These gestures are re-imagined through a dancer’s body, a surrogate presence that enacts moments of waking and dwelling. In this translation, self becomes other, and documentation gives way to performance.

The work reflects on the convergence of living and working spaces, the rhythms of daily ritual, and the physicality of photographic practice. By relocating the act of printing into the gallery, the artist makes visible a process that is usually hidden, offering audiences a view into both the images and the means of their creation. Ultimately, this series functions as a quiet chronology: a visual record of time passed and space inhabited, of a body in flux, and of a practice unfolding between home and gallery, private and public, material and immaterial.

LYCKSELE LÖVÅS

The bed is ordinary, obviously.

Just a rectangle with sheets that never sit quite right. But it’s also the place where everything feels a little too real. You wake up in it every morning, still halfdreaming, not yet sure who you’re supposed to be that day.

It’s where you rehearse conversations you’ll never have, and remember ones you wish had gone differently. It keeps a record of the nights you didn’t sleep, and the ones you didn’t want to. It’s ridiculous, really - how much of life happens horizontally.

And still, every night, you go back to it.