To mark the publication of the book Being Here (Skeleton Key Press, 2024), Galerie VU’ presents a selection from this series by Øyvind Hjelmen, exhibited for the first time in France.
Through a scenography that plays on scale and proximity, this exhibition unveils Øyvind Hjelmen’s sensitive and introspective world. The spatial arrangement invites meticulous contemplation, where each image is discovered in close proximity, with the delicacy of a memory book.
Visual fragments tinged with a gentle melancholy, Øyvind Hjelmen’s photographs evoke suspended moments, reminiscences floating on the edge of the visible. His work questions the persistence of memory and the fragility of the moment, in a subtle balance between what remains and what fades.
With Being Here, Øyvind Hjelmen invites us to immerse ourselves in the twists and turns of memory and perception. The small, delicately staged images recall the book-object from which they originate. Each photograph is like an imprint, a whisper of the past that resonates in the present.
Øyvind Hjelmen : Being Here
March 14 – April 11, 2025
Galerie VU’
Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint-Lazare
75009 Paris
www.galerievu.com
The Book
Øyvind Hjelmen : Being Here
Skeleton Key Press
Design by Russell Joslin
Poem by Jon Fosse
21 x 24 cm – 112 pages, 69 duotone plates
Hardcover (cloth binding/inserted images (front and back)/hot foil stamping)
Text in English & Norwegian
ISBN 978-82-692410-8-2
First edition, limited to 360 signed and numbered copies
https://www.skeletonkeypress.com/beinghere
