Denise Grünstein is a pioneering Swedish photographer, and one of the most prominent of her generation. Her new series, which is being shown for the first time, will constitute her second major exhibition at CFHILL. Notable besides her technical skill and her extraordinary sense of detail is the way she manages to liberate her own photographs from any notions of what photography ought to be.
Her domain is that of the imagination. Ever-present in her portraits and dramatic tableaus is the sense that there is something more, something hidden just below the surface. Denise Grünstein creates a world altogether her own.
Upon entering the first antechamber of the Nymphaeas exhibition, the visitor will encounter shimmering, vibrant, biomorphic foliage, which foreshadows a distant, parallel borderland in which space and sea will combine into one. In the background, music composed by Älgbrant plays, oscillating between electronic space pulses and warm piano notes.
Once inside the main gallery, one finds the entire space transformed, as the walls are covered with giant, floating lily leaves. At the centre of the space, the viewer embarks on a journey to the depths, a loop of peaceful motion through a maze of oceanic space.
