Nikolas M. Theilgaard
In a way that is at the same time both tangibly sensual and considered, the work of
Nikolas Theilgaard investigates the aphorisms that come to stand in for perception as
the world itself becomes more abstract. He aims at a kind of assimilation of the world,
and begins with a cautious appraisal of visible surfaces, fixing and cropping them as a
way to plumb the depths of the, so to speak, cocaptives of space and time.
In this the artist makes use of two divergent media that might seem at first glance to have little in common: photography and drawing.
He isn not however interested in an opposition between the representation of facts, objects
and landscapes and the conceptual appropriation of reality, not in different ways of
perceiving the world, but in two different methods of making the world into an image: on
the one side the image as a framed window to which we turn our gaze and on the other side
the image that steps into the place of the eye and in doing so leaves the frame and our
standpoint indeterminate.
Harald Uhr
