NYAB Event - Elisabeth Molin "Gaps"

Elisabeth Molin "Gaps"

AC Institute

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Elisabeth Molin’s photographs explore different ways of thinking about and looking at reality. These different views are inspired by dreams, lies vs. truths and anecdotes. Through the use of props and actors she alters our perception of urban spaces and mental spaces. She explores different means of playing with reality, these means often being backwards or paradoxical. By changing and modifying the existing spaces, she creates new contexts and opportunities for perceiving the spaces and reality differently for a moment: a momentary alteration of perception. She uses photography as a narElisabeth Molin’s photographs explore different ways of thinking aboutrative that has paused. It becomes an abstract moment where the individual and the body are central. The individual person is the main focus and each photograph can also be seen as a portrait of that person. Some people try to escape reality, on the contrary, Molin seeks the humorous, the surreal and the paradoxical in reality.

Gaps is a series of photographs depicting various mental states. Inspired by dreams and the everyday, each image exists somewhere between imagination and reality. The series introduce an alternative way of looking at the world. Whereas “The King” and “Billy” alter architectural and urban spaces, “Grey” and “Tape” render reality surreal and almost animated. By twisting and playing with different concepts and stereotypes such as ‘a suit’, ‘a king’ or ‘botox lips’ the photographs set out to question reality and our perceptions of it. Gaps demonstrates a varying selection of perceptions and a way of thinking about reality and the photographs relate to one another through odd contexts and wry relations.

From an early age, Danish artist Elisabeth Molin began exploring new ways of looking at the world from behind the camera lens. Since then she has been exploring the various fields of photography, graphic design and art. Originally trained in graphic design, she moved to London to study at University of The Arts London, where she obtained a BA in Fine Art with a specialism in photography and film. She has exhibited in Copenhagen at both Charlottenborg Kunsthal and at the Spring Exhibition. In London at the Triangle Gallery, the Old Truman Brewery and at the East London Photography Festival Photomonth.