Organism

“Organism” explores the symbiosis of brutal concrete and futuristic architecture (the hard), and the organic human (the soft). These images were made between 1999-2003 in Bangkok,Thailand and explores the monumental concrete motorways built to ease the flow of Bangkok’s congested transport system. This system creates a bone structure over the flesh of the city where traffic becomes the pumping blood in a body. It is a living “Organism”.

The contrast between these highly futuristic concrete forms in the landscape of this urban environment and the humans who compete to survive in several levels of their own has been very strong for me.

“Organism” also explores our futuristic fantasies from movies and dreams in contrast to another cultures reality and daily life. This accentuates the idea of perception compared to what kind of surroundings you have grown accustomed to in your life.

I want viewers to travel into a space where the aesthetically beautiful meets the socially ugly. This is something all large cities have in their own level. In Norwegian we call it “ the backside of the medal”! A dreamworld where beautiful soft lines and forms in reality are hard and brutal. Concrete brutalism. A kind of optical illusion on a large scale.

By keeping the futuristic and colorfull dreamworld separate from the b/h reality of this family creates a huge contrast in itself.