Background information
"In 'On/Auf' the Swedish artist Mikael OLSSON undertakes a photographic interpretation of the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron’s and the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s temporary pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Content
By investigating the traces of their creative processes in their archives,and exploring the relation between the structure and its various contexts, Mikael OLSSON creates images that follow and go beyond the object—a visual narrative uncovering issues of memory, identity and perception.
Text material
The photo book, 'On/Auf' by Mikael OLSSON, includes an essay by author Péter Nádas entitled 'Loaned Landscapes, Borrowed Objects. The Space of the Image and the Image of Space in Mikael Olsson’s Photography'." (© Steidl Verlag, 2020)