33 Suspensions
ISBN: 978-82-303-6097-2
Pages: 72
Cover: Hardcover
Size: 303 mm x 240 mm
Edition of 300 copies
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Photography: Dan Skjæveland
Art Direction/Editing: Brad Feuerhelm & Dan Skjæveland
Design: Fernanda Fajardo & João Linneu (Kakkalakki)
Printing production: Tea Design
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33 Suspensions demands a viewer capable of reading the metaphorical nature of the images, someone who can perceive the subtleties between the lines and assign their own experiential context to this work, which delves into a realm far removed from the documentary and instead belongs to the realm of experience: each journey through its pages forms a present, timeless experience.
-Carlos Leiton, Poesía & Capitalismo, 2025
33 Suspensions, like so many ghostly crucifixions, form a series of enigmatic images. One can try to decipher each photograph, classify it in this or that genre (still life, abstraction, performance), but that is not the most important thing, which is perhaps to understand that the entirety of the scenes of our lives, and the signs that dot them, form the blazon of a perfect existence. In Dan Skjaeveland's gaze, there is a combination of astonishment and certain assurance, a fearless stupor, a mental tightrope walker.
-Fabien Ribery, L’intervalle.blog, 2023
Reduce. Minimize. Find a common typology and seek an analogous form. Repeat. De-saturate. Enable. Meaning is derived from our capacity to invent. Imagine.
Find trace and allow it to infiltrate and inform. Without drawing parallels, we seek answers in what little has been given to us. Repeat. Reduce. Imagine.
Dan Skjæveland is a Norwegian artist whose new book 33 Suspensions asks the viewer to engage with clues and cryptic signals. Slippage occurs; memories of memory.
Rules are fragmented and declarations declined.
Decode. Decipher. Glyphs. Numbers.
Skjæveland’s images are demarcated by muted color, potential connections.
Transparencies, reflections, smudges and remnants. Residues of an urban palette. Gradations of grey, an interplay between warm and cool.
Tensions hang in the air, almost-abstraction modulating earth tone and metallic.
The viewer draws out their own meanings from the work. The images brood in an obtuse melancholy and echo American conceptual practice.
To delineate a strict path of meaning would disable the work and encroach on the profane.
Conceive. Deceive. Contradict.
33 Suspensions is not an exercise in willful avoidance. There is instead courage to assemble and proliferate ambiguous images, origins masked and muddied.
What reality do we occupy? Skjæveland’s images shimmer in their instability. As they take form and recede, the viewer is invited into a world without absolutes.
-Brad Feuerhelm, Press release, 2023