Emanuel Cederqvist

In the photo series Sough of the Site, that is produced for the exhibition In the Wake of the waves, Emanuel Cederqvist approaches the Grimeton Radio Station out of curiosity about what it communicates to us in the present. Although radio communication is fleeting, there are lasting traces and stories of people who lived and worked at the place Grimeton itself in ancient times. The title relates to the concept of Genius Loci – the soul of o site, which is primarily used in architecture to describe how the character of a place has been influenced by the people who lived there. The history of the place is reflected in our experience and gives us meaning.

Emanuel Cederqvist has also invited the artist Fredrik Åkum and his publisher Sunless Press to interpret and reinterpret the visual material that Cederqvist used as a starting point. The result is a fanzine where archive material from Rocky Point, a radio station outside New York that was demolished in 1978, meets newly taken images from Grimeton. Rocky Point is similar in architecture to Grimeton and was one of the radio stations that Grimeton communicated with most frequently. The fanzine can be seen as a wordless slow conversation between artist and reader, or sender and receiver.

Emanuel Cederqvist is a photographer with an interest in how we interpret and read the shapes of the landscape in the light of our own memories, experiences and through our common cultural heritage. His working method can be described as a form of visual archeology where perception and photography can act as tools for the investigation. For Cederqvist, there is an interesting connection between the place and the photograph, where the traces of human presence talk about time in the same way as the photographic medium.

Emanuel Cederqvist is educated at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, where he obtained his Master’s degree in photography in 2018. In 2014, he published his first photo book, What remains (Blackbook Publication). Since then, he has published several books and participated in various exhibitions both in Sweden and internationally.

www.emanuelcederquist.se

Portrait photo: Linda Bergman

Other pictures: Emanuel Cederqvist’s previous work, Paler Ash Back & Känningen