Peter Wiklund
Szwecja – Sweden
Hägersten
Born 1967.
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
Started using pinhole cameras in 1990. The pinhole camera is still my favourite tool given it´s combination of being unpredictable and giving somewhat semi-surrealistic results - you can see what was in front of the camera, but it slightly differs from how you normally see it.
www.peterpinhole.com
Inside/Out – self-portraits
This ongoing series contains my self-portraiture in natural surroundings. The act of making photographic self-portraits is spontaneous and intuitive. I rarely plan the images, but improvise by acting at the specific scene.
It is a somewhat unconscious process.
I cannot see myself through the camera lens, and working with analogue material, I have to wait to see the results until the film is processed.
By taking self-portraits using myself as a model, I enhance the element of chance in the images - something that is always very important in my art.
But it is not a fully uncontrolled process: the images are made as stage-settings, where I build up a situation where I put myself in a role - and then use the camera to actually document the setting and moment.
The resulting images are all about identity, hope, fear and trust.
It has been important to use the photographic medium. If I would have been able to paint it, it still wouldn't have given the same impact and effect.
These are parts of sceneries that obviously have existed (they are recorded by the camera), but they are scenes that no one has ever have seen. This gives a tension between the authenticity and the notion that it is never possible to see the sceneries in real life.
CV
Group exhibitions (selection):
2013
· Black Box Gallery, Portland (OR), USA - The Poetic Landscape
· Rayko Photo, San Francisco, USA - Plastic Camera Group Show
· Positive Negative Gallery, Vancouver, Canada - Beautiful Decay
· Rayko Photo, San Francisco, USA - Pinhole Group Show
· Lightbox Gallery, Astoria (OR), USA - Plastic Fantastic IV
2012
· Rayko Photo, San Francisco, USA - Plastic Camera Group Show
· Lightbox Gallery, Astoria (OR), USA - The Photographic Nude 2012
· Positive Negative Gallery, Vancouver, CA - Anywhere but here
· Lightbox Gallery, Astoria (OR), USA - Plastic Fantastic III
· PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury (VT), USA - Alternative Realities
· The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington (VA), USA - Terrain
· Lightbox Gallery, Astoria (OR), USA - Spooky Show
· The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington (VA), USA - The Unreal
2011
· Centre Culturel André Malraux, Le Bourget, France - Alive!
· Miejska Galeria, Lodz, Poland - Small Graphic Forms
· Lightbox Gallery, Astoria (OR), USA - Plastic Fantastic II
· Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm, Sweden - Bladverk
· OFFO International Pinhole Show, Katowice, Poland
· Lightbox Photographic, Astoria (OR), USA - Spooky Show
· Black Box Gallery, Portland (OR), USA - re:nude
2010
· Centre Culturel André Malraux, Le Bourget, France - 4-4-4
· Rayko Photo, San Francisco, USA - Pinhole Group Show
· Galleri Ikon, Stockholm, Sweden - Slow light
· Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden - Grafiktriennalen
· Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland - Miniprint Finland 2010
· Tilt Gallery, Phoenix (AZ), USA - Photography Re-Imagined 2010
2009
· Centre Culturel André Malraux, Le Bourget, France - Speed
· Rayko Photo, San Francisco, USA - Plastic Camera Group Show
· OFFO International Pinhole Show, Katowice, Poland
· Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh (PA) - Sacred art
· Väsby Konsthall, Upplands Väsby, Sweden - 30x30
· Bitola Museum, Bitola, Macedonia - Triennial of Graphic Art
· Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna, Sweden - Höstsalong
2008>
· Slowart Gallery, Hudson (NY), USA - Strange Figurations>
· Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay (CA), USA - Through a Lens>
· Gaude Mater, Czestochowa, Poland - International biennial of miniature art>
· Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh (PA) - Inter/national>
· Miejska Galeria, Lodz, Poland - Small Graphic Forms>
· Hun Gallery, New York (NY), USA - Hun Gallery International 2008