Torbjørn Rødland was born in Stavenger, Norway in 1970. He has made several exhibitions in Tokio, New York, Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris and San Francisco, among others. He is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop music: a master of the delicately orchestrated clichée overload, a surcharge of the too obvious, too cute or too inane, played to the point where the images are drained of all trace of common sense and suggest a new sense of silence or mystery. He creates a complex of readings that inveigles the viewer into spending time with each single image, to reconsider its meaning and relevance, reinventing the romantic impulses of popular culture.
Team gallery is pleased to announce a solo show of work by Los Angeles-based, Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland. The exhibition will run from 20 September through 08 November 2015. Team (bungalow) is located at 306 Windward Avenue in Venice, CA. Concurrently, our 83 Grand Street and 47 Wooster Street spaces will house exhibitions by Robert Janitz and Gardar Eide Einarsson, respectively.
For this exhibition, Rødland presents six photographs from his oeuvre. His immaculately staged images contain an eerie blend of the sensual and cerebral, of harsh precision and bizarre idiosyncrasy, giving them with a mesmerizing Unheimlich quality. His unorthodox treatment of frequently recognizable and firmly quotidian subjects - human bodies, food items, household objects - confound familiar cultural mater...