by Justin Fantl 01.25.2010
I recently came across Asger Carlsen’s work for the second time. I was captivated on the first go around but on this discovery I spent much more time looking at and contemplating the images. The work is really quite interesting. In a photographic sense it lacks a full resolve and formality but it is the bizzare narrative Carlsen infuses that propels the images. Given the scope of his work, however, the self-deconstructive nature (in a photographic sense) of his series “wrong” is completely intentional. What you are left with is a raw narrative that is not so much trying to show or demonstrate something but leaves the viewer with a completely open-ended story. I don’t really know what is going on in some of his images and I am not even necessarily comfortable looking . . .but I do look. You decide…….
















