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A Game Of Badminton – Carl Ander

Mar 05, 2018 - Carl Oliver Ander

My interest in perception of time got a very literal output in the series Game of Badminton. The installation consists of 20 photographs depicting a badminton shuttlecock in play during a game. When photographed, the shuttle-cock is in motion, but with the cameras ability of short shutter speed this motion is killed/frozen.

 

Gathering all the photographs in the same room, enables a possibility for the viewer to look both back and forward in time. A sense of being in a frozen time period (the period of a badminton game) is constructed. This is further enhanced by the hanging of the photographs. The room and space of a badminton field is recreated by letting the hanging be determined by where the picture was taken in the original space.

 

For the visual identity of the exhibition (showed at Galleri Monitor 2016) I worked with graphic designer Tor Weibull, who talks about his part here.