Adam Ekberg From the outskirts

February 14 to March 23, 2025
Artist’s Reception, First Thursday, March 7, 6 to 8PM

LINK TO IMAGES FROM THE EXHIBITION

Platform Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photographs by Adam Ekberg. Adam’s new photographs continue to record the artist’s gesture in both domestic settings and marginal landscapes. The domestic spaces reflect his interest in everyday life, while the landscapes suggest the importance of areas just outside those inhabited by people. With occasional help from an assistant, the artist plans, stages, and photographs these specific performances, always with the perspective of the camera in mind. Ekberg’s goal is for the photographically recorded gesture to appear in such a way that the viewer feels she is bearing witness to these events or can imagine bearing witness.

The moments Ekberg orchestrates vary in content from an eclipse of a pineapple to an inexplicable splash in an empty kitchen, from candle-lit distortions to an image of an aerosol container burning in an empty field. Regardless of location, these actions and their photographic representation cohere as interruptions in otherwise unremarkable places, as understated, absurdist insertions of the self created with commonplace materials. In these images Ekberg subverts the camera’s ability to accurately depict or explain these occurrences.

Adam Ekberg earned his MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Ekberg has had recent solo exhibitions at Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, and Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden, as well as group exhibitions at ClampArt, New York, and Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. This is Ekberg’s third solo exhibition at Platform Gallery.

Image: Triangle of fire, 2011, archival inkjet print, edition of 8.

ARTIST’S LECTURE
Friday, March 8, Photo Center NW, 6:30PM
900 12th Ave., Seattle
Tickets: $10, $8 Members
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