Mellemrummet, Godsbanen Aarhus 2022

"15 portrætter i det grønne" / "15 Portraits in the Green". 32 pages. Format: 13 x 13 cm. Inkjet print. Color.
Unboxing the contents of an old cardboard box: 20 exposed fragile glass plates/negatives with barely legible photos, all portraits in outdoor scenery. 702 grams of physical and enigmatic existence now transformed into a zine. The digitally developed images reveal long-forgotten moments of life. A position, an attitude, a smile, a gust of wind, flowers, shadows – all preserved on the glass plates in zones of light and darkness. Transparency of time.

A picture from the cardboard box shows a woman looking at flowers in a garden. Enlarged and composed of many prints as a collage with 'cracks' and 'breaks' in the image it is referring to 'gaps' in memory over time.

Box/Unbox is an artistic examination of found photography and orphaned photographs.
Six artists unfold found photographs through photo books and other objects. The group behind ‘Box. Unbox’ has collaborated after a ‘page-turner’-workshop led by paula roush during Photobook Week Aarhus 2020.

Visual artist and photographer paula roush (London)
Photographer and visual anthropologist Ane Bonde Rolsted (Grejs)
Photographer Ali Roshanzanir (Copenhagen)
Photographer and conservator Sille Julie Høgly Petersen (Copenhagen)
Visual artist Sarah Schorr (Aarhus)
Visual artist Bodil Sohn (Aarhus)