DEPS Artist Profile Series- Ludvig Peres

LUDVIG PERÉS

Photo by Lena Perés

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LUDVIG PERÉS / 0.30

Photo by Lena Perés

For C33 Gallery, Ludvig Perés presents 0.30, an exhibition featuring recent photographic works exploring the abstract

nature of light and object. Perés’s work captures the powerful relationship between shadow and light, specifically the

metaphorical aspects that play upon our unconscious psyches. 0.30 is a continuous body of work that challenges the

boundaries of photography as a purely, visually objective medium. Describing his process,

Perés states:

Since photography is a medium wholly tied to the visually objective world, I seek to push this objectivity of photography into

nonobjectivity by abstracting the object of reality. Leaving primary geometric forms, reducing colors to black and white and only

using light and lines to distort the space in which it resides. All this in order to create a slate free from objective preconceptions,

where, like a mirror reflecting our emotions, nothing but feelings can be perceived.

Ludvig Perés was born in Borlänge Sweden and has been featured in Fotographiska Talent 2018 at Fotografiska Museet in

Stockholm, Sweden and Lens 2020 at Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL. In 2019 he had a solo exhibition Klärobskyr at the

Swedish American Museum in Chicago and is a recipient of Columbia College’s 2020 Albert P. Weisman Award. Perés

graduates from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Photography in May 2020.

https://www.ludvigperes.com/

Untitled Abstract 01, 2019, Inkjet Print














INTERVIEW WITH LUDVIG PERÉS

Conducted by Kaylee Fowler

Kaylee Fowler: Your work in 0.30 heavily emphasizes

line, light, and geometric form, leaving the images

without an objective subject; you

chose to explore this through photography, which is

often considered an objective, subject-based media.

What inspired you to challenge this notion of

objectivity through photography, and did you

have any significant influences outside the realm

of photography?

Ludvig Perés: I was reading Kazimir Malevich’s

Suprematist Manifesto and got inspired by how he

challenged the prevailing figurative style of painting in

his time by reaching for the absolute zero in painting,

and how he tried to find out where the border

between art and non-art resides. I had not seen this

line of thinking applied to photography before. So I

began thinking, in order to make a photograph, you

have to capture something in light. In other words,

you have to capture something being struck by light,

an object, and it is in this sense that photography is

completely objective, because you need to have an

object of some kind that light bounces off of. These

thoughts made me want to see how far I could push

this objectivity and find out how close I could to come

to the absolute zero of photography, meaning the

photographed object abstracted beyond recognition.

KF: The images in this series are intentionally abstract,

however are there images or experiences you

anticipate viewers to interpret when viewing this work,

and how do you respond to viewers natural inclination

to search for a subject matter in abstract work?

LP: The ways the viewer interprets these pieces are

completely up to them. My goal, however, is to create

works that are free of any preconceived emotions tied

to figurative objects. Instead, the viewer will be

confronted with the emotions of their own inner lives,

rather than the

emotions they already have tied to various objects

and figures. Regarding the question about the viewers

natural inclination to search for a subject matter in

abstract work, and I only speak for my own work here,

is to miss the point. The work was made to promote

the viewer to look within themselves and investigate

their own inner emotional lives. However, if the viewer

finds pleasure in searching for a subject matter of

their own in the works, I am all for it, as long as they

end up getting something out of it.

KF: How does your previous work in street

photography influence this abstract series, and in

what direction do you see your work going in after

this? Do you think you will continue to document the

nonobjective angles of reality?

LP: In general, my photography has always had a big

emphasis on light, geometric form and lines. So in a

way, my abstract work is distilling my photographic

interests to their very core. I will definitely keep

working on this project to further investigate and

continue to push the non-objectivity of photography.

KF: You’ve been working in Chicago the past several

years, but have also featured work from and exhibited

in your home country of Sweden. Do you think there

is a difference in how your work is received in these

two countries?

LP: This is a hard question to answer because I am

not entirely sure, two different cultures will perceive

things in different ways. So I cannot give a concrete

answer to how these cultures will perceive my work

differently, it is all subjective to each individual viewer.

KF: What do you think is the importance of exploring

the abstract with photography?

LP: I think by exploring the abstract aspects of

photography you are also exploring the boundaries

of photography, and by exploring these said

boundaries, you will eventually push them. This

means going to places photography has never gone

before, and in turn, expanding the creative field of

photography for the better.

KF: And what are you hoping to accomplish with this

series of work?

LP: What I’m hoping to accomplish with my work is for

the viewer to respond by introspecting their emotions

and learn something new about themselves. Now I

am aware that this might be optimistic to hope for a

piece of art to achieve in a person, but in the end, it is

what I hope for the work to do.

DEPS ARTIST PROFILE SERIES

The DEPS Artist Profile Series, presented by Columbia College Chicago’s Department of Exhibitions, Performance, and

Student Spaces (DEPS), is a virtual publication on select artists involved with the DEPS Galleries and the Columbia College

Chicago community. Our goal with this series is to connect artist and viewer on a deeper level, and to highlight the

amazing works and thoughts of our featured artists through interviews, artist biographies, and catalogs of work. Art has

always been a way to connect with others, no matter where one may physically be. We hope by presenting the creativity

and insights of the people involved in the DEPS Artist Profile Series that viewers may have one more way to stay in touch

with and support the arts community.

The DEPS Artist Profile Series is managed by Fine Arts major and DEPS Exhibitions Assistant Kaylee Fowler.

Design, animation and illustration by Graphic Design major and DEPS Exhibitions Assistant Gianella Goan.

For more information, please contact Mark Porter, mporter@colum.edu / 312.369.6643

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