2021-22
Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, mounted on aluminium dibond, stained walnut frame
136.6cm x 142.6cm (framed size)
part of the series Nocturnal Pieces
After a night of intense dreaming, Stenram would wake up and spit onto the glass of her flat bed scanner, producing the Saliva works. They are futile attempts to capture the aftermath of nighttime dream events; but they also suggest underwater landscapes, stars and galaxies, transforming the intimate and internal into something more expansive and universal.
“For night - through a major difference from day - is no more external than it is internal. Day is wholly outside; day is before our eyes, at the tip of our hands and feet on our tongue and in the porches of our ears. Night identifies outside with inside; the eyes sees in it the underside of things, the back of the eyelids, the invisible layer of the other side of things, the underpinnings, crypts, skins turned inside out. It is the world of substance, that which exists underneath and itself exists on nothing else....” Jean-Luc Nancy, from The Fall of Sleep
For the series Nocturnal Pieces, Stenram investigated sleeping and dreaming. Made while staying mostly indoors during the winter, the series is an exploration of the process of falling asleep; the transformation of active bodies into unconscious shapes surrounded by darkness and night.
Nocturnal Pieces was first exhibited in the exhibition Cadastral at Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (DK) and was made possible through an artist's grant from Stiftung Kunstfond / Neustart Kultur.
2021-22
Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, mounted on aluminium dibond, stained walnut frame
31.8cm x 39.3cm (framed size)
part of the series Nocturnal Pieces
2021-22
Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, mounted on aluminium dibond, stained walnut frame
50cm x 62.5cm
part of the series Nocturnal Pieces
2021-22
Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, mounted on aluminium dibond, stained walnut frame
43.8cm x 35cm
part of the series Nocturnal Pieces
2021-22
Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, mounted on aluminium dibond, stained walnut frame
57.5cm x 60cm
part of the series Nocturnal Pieces
