Still Life (Inertia Geometry)
Still Life (Inertia Geometry) presents a minimalist composition that evokes some deep, fundamental questions about our perception of a world, assumed to be fully calculable yet its inherent poetics provoke a dialectal debate. Euclidean geometry, represented ...
Stories make worlds / Worlds make stories – Galleria Heino – 23.11.2019 – 22.12.2019
The installation and the photographs in Axel Antas’ exhibition are works with layers of signification and time. Antas has a conceptual and philosophical approach to nature, and in the exhibition, he explores how working through ...
Uncanny Valley / 4.2.2017 – 26.2.2017
For his solo exhibition, Finnish artist Axel Antas brings together new C-type photographs and video with pencil drawings to explore our physical relationship to the natural world, and our alienation from it.
Travelling through the remote ...
Seen and Not Seen: On Axel Antas
Text by Martin Herbert
In 2007, a handful of forlorn wooden structures appeared in the vast, implacable landscapes of the Catalan Pyrenees. They were handbuilt, intended as birdhouses and, to judge from photographs such as Structure ...
Singularities
Text by Bettina Klein
The still life can no longer be clearly distinguished as a genre in contemporary photography; the boundaries have dissolved and such forms of categorization have long lost their relevance. Yet in a ...
From the Gesture of Breathing to a Mathematical Dead End. On the Incarnation of the Landscape in Axel Antas’s Art
Text by Hanna Johansson
There is a familiarity in watching and moving in a landscape, while the landscape also embodies certain shared emotions and values. We may ask, however, what do we see when we look ...
I’m too dead to tell you: withdrawing rooms and other breathing spaces.
Death suspends the relation to place,even though the deceased rests heavily in his spot as if upon the only basis that is left to him.To be precise,this basis lacks,the place is missing,the corpse is not ...