Vi har et fysisk visningsrom og webgalleri for analogt fotografi ved vårt mørkerom.
Du kan komme innom mørkerommet for å se månedens utstiling og kikke gjennom eller kjøpe bilder laget for hånd av fotografene som arbeider her. Eller om du bor lenger unna er det også mulig å bla gjennom tilgjengelige bilder på webgalleriet.
I januar viser vi utstillingen “How many times will you watch the full moon rise” av Lin Xue
The title is appropriated from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles.
The moon has always been the most inspiring light. In the book Dream of the Red Chamber, two architectures within the Chinese garden were built for gaze of the moon. One is the Convex Pavilion, perched atop a hill for those who delight in seeing the mountains rise high while the moon appears small beside them. Another is the Concave Pavilion, resting by the water for those who love the moon mirrored on its clear surface.
One turns the gaze upward, the other downward; yet both are vessels for reverence — architectures built not merely to look at the moon, but to dwell in its light. In their mirrored gestures of ascent and descent, the moon becomes an opening, a portal through which one’s own quietness may pass.
Here, where the darkroom meets the lightroom, another kind of vessel has been created. A series of luminograms await to be encountered, stared at, and drifted into. Their mingling hues, uncertain forms, and shifting clarity invite each viewer to wander elsewhere — to a landscape of their own making, through a glowing circular portal, like the full moon itself.
Lin Xue (b. 1995, China) is a photographer based in Oslo, Norway and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Oslo (2024). He became a member of Cyan Darkroom in November 2024. Since then, he has been focusing on making color prints with and without the presence of the enlarger. Xue is interested in the materiality of photographic media, working with analog film, Polaroid, and camera-less luminograms. Through these experiments, he reflects on themes of precarity and transience, intertwining scientific insight with poetic sensibility.
Utstillingen henger oppe 3. - 31.januar /26
Vernissage og fotografomvisning 3. januar kl 18-21
Fotografomvisning 16.januar kl 19-20
Galleriet er ellers åpent stort sett hver dag, når det er folk ved mørkerommet, og etter avtale
Trondheimsveien 32
Ved interesse ta kontakt med:
CYAN studio eller Lin Xue
