Oliver Boberg

Underpasses and flat-roofed buildings appear familiar yet impossible to place. These urban scenes are constructed models, photographed so that their miniature scale almost disappears. Carefully staged and lit, they turn ordinary architecture into anonymous settings that could belong to many different places. The exhibition catalogue brings together photographs, video stills and drawings. Alongside the urban photographs, the film work explores deserted nocturnal landscapes, also built as scale models. A cliff and a country road at twilight in heavy rain become settings charged with suspense, without people to explain what might be happening. The films use little movement or sound, sustaining an atmosphere of expectation rather than telling a defined story. Accompanying exhibitions at Kunstverein Hannover and Fotomuseum Den Haag, the publication includes essays by Stephan Berg and Martin Engler and an interview by Marc Mayer.