ØYVIND HJELMEN
BEING HERE
This exhibition unveils the artist’s sensitive and introspective world through a scenography that plays with scale and proximity. This intimate presentation encourages slow, careful contemplation, where each image unfolds with the quiet rhythm of a visual diary.
Hjelmen’s photographs, imbued with a quiet melancholy, capture suspended moments, fleeting traces of time passing—remnants hovering at the edge of visibility. His work explores the persistence of memory and the fragility of the present, striking a delicate balance between what remains and what fades away.
Hjelmen’s photographs, imbued with a quiet melancholy, capture suspended moments, fleeting traces of time passing—remnants hovering at the edge of visibility. His work explores the persistence of memory and the fragility of the present, striking a delicate balance between what remains and what fades away.
opening Wednesday July 9th @ 6 to 9PM
with book signature
exhibition July 7 to 13
from 2 to 8 PM
and on appointment
Before a gigantic print (such as those of Andreas Gursky, for example), we face a belvedere, we fear falling into the image. Øyvind Hjelmen’s images, on the contrary, are small treasures; we approach them very closely to hear them whisper, we want to carry them to our hearts.
We hesitate to say that these images were printed with an “enlarger,” they are so tiny. They show us fragments, of what we think we saw, what we imagine we remember… the darkness of his laboratory in faraway Norway is the lair of the alchemist of our dreams.
The Frozen Lake, a tiny gallery that never hesitates to show gigantic images, is proud to exhibit Øyvind Hjelmen’s miniatures. At the opening, he will sign his beautiful book, the images of which have escaped onto the walls.
Richard Petit | curator
oyvindhjelmen.com
