David Molander
Swedish visual artist David Molander makes artwork from places and moments in cities. Once he selects a subject, he creates a vast amount of digital photography, film, and sound recordings of the location and recomposes the material into large-scale photographic collages and animated films that uncover the historical, conceptual, and sensory layers of place. Molander’s work has been exhibited internationally in art museums and galleries as well as in architecture institutions, public space, and online.
Molander’s most recent series, Rest in Paint, shows images and films about removed texts in different cities around the world. The project shines a light on how the visual traces of a location, colors and textures, can be linked to history, ideology, cognitive space, and living memory. Another series, collected from Teufelsberg Berlin, shows an area where utopia and dystopia are intertwined. Molander’s series are often labeled as urban or architectural with a social or critical interpretation.