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diafragma is photo book by Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard composed of folded sheets in varying sizes, all housed within a custom-made box.

In this work, Luksengard delves into how stress and societal expectations imprint themselves on the body and mind. Through layered and tactile imagery, she reflects on the unseen rhythms and pressures that shape our lives. The title diafragma—referring to the diaphragm muscle—serves as a metaphor for the interplay between the emotional and physical self.

More than a conventional photo book, diafragma invites an embodied experience. To engage with it, the reader must physically interact with the structure—unfolding the pages in multiple directions, touching its textures, and, in a sense, breathing with it.

The monograph, published in conjunction with Aandal’s exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening, presents over a hundred artworks from his career. Through interviews, in-depth analyses of his works, and a broad historical contextualization, new perspectives on Aandal’s art emerge.

For four decades, Ole John Aandal has explored the evolving role of photography—from analog documentation to digital mass communication—and how this transformation has shaped society’s self-perception. The exhibition Ingenting bra skjer plutselig is the most extensive presentation of his work to date. The pieces range from photographs taken in Palestine for Klassekampen in the late 1980s to a newly created installation based on images of Oslo’s transformation following the July 22, 2011-terror attack.

A couple of years ago Løkkens daughter, due to a tumor around the optic nerve, lost sight in one eye. With this as a backdrop, Løkken was lead to rethink her stand as a photographer. She started to investigate the presence of both the optical and haptic gaze within her photography. In a caring and playful way she has strived to merge a recognizable bodily experience of texture and tactility with a more traditional semiotic visual narrative. The book is printed on 60 g paper, making the images bleed from one side to another and melt together into new previously unseen imagery. This leaves the viewer with a multilayered sight much like visual memories stored inside us

Collected from a gravel pit at the foot of Hardangervidda, the stones featured in this leporello lay bare and 'unprotected' after being unearthed. The stones hold stories of deep time, speaking of forces beyond our grasp. Through the text 'Here I Am,' written from the stone’s perspective, their journey of formation and transformation is recounted, bearing witness to the earth's violent and evolving forces. The images of clouds, interwoven with the text, serve as a contrast to the stones' solidity, while the accordion structure of the leporello evokes continuity, reflecting the fluid, unbroken flow of time. Together, these elements—the firm, eternal stone and the fleeting, ephemeral clouds—represent time's duality. The images and text present the stones as silent witnesses to the forces that shape both land and life, embodying a sense of existential stability and offering quiet resistance in a world marked by constant crisis.