David Selander

Yellow Square, 2024

The first circle humanity experienced, the sun. About a year ago I contacted an astronomer to buy photographs from him in order to make a sun in the shape of a square. He liked the idea. The motif is a patchwork of several astrophotographs of the sun. 

Depending on your distance to the picture you see two different objects. From far away and because the form has been altered it is only a yellow square. As you move towards the frame it gradually transforms as the texture becomes pronounced. The title yellow square, square sun reflects the incompatibility between on one hand the gradual transformation of the image and on the other hand the binary transition between its two states described with language. Its transformation as an image from yellow square to square sun is gradual, yet its transformation as an object of language cannot easily take into account this transition. Two images in one image. One plus one is one.

David Selander is an artist and adjunct professor at KTH Architecture in Stockholm. Dealing with topics such as categorization, meaning and how properties of identity inform the perception of objects he creates works in different mediums: images, installations, sculptures & furniture. By exchanging the right property in an object it transforms into something new. This new object lives in a semiotic vacuum. It is estranged because its identity is made uncertain. You see this object like you see an object for the first time, like children do. It can be filled with new meaning. These objects can accommodate several disparate meanings at once making it more than the original. David’s work has been acquired by the Gothenburg Museum of Art and he has exhibited at Collectible Brussels, Liljevalchs Vårsalong and Ung Svensk Form amongst other venues. He is represented in Stockholm by WAY Gallery.

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