The predictability of fate is a weight all may decide to be ignorant of or accept. Author
Milan Kundera writes on this: “The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the
earth [...] what then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”.
Milan Kundera writes on this: “The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the
earth [...] what then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”.
Photographer Rasmus Bengtsson poetically reflects on this dilemma, through
thoughtful and personal photographs taken in nature. An intuitive process, he captures
subjects of animals, natural topographies, and anomaly identities.
In his recent photobook work, Waiting to Live, Waiting to Die, feelings about grieving
are laced within images of closely examined animals, dead and alive. A mix of dream-
like color and experimental black and white photos, express a style of magic-realism.
Set in a coastal wildlife reserve, natural sublime and beautiful scenery are the
environment where the introspective meditation occurs. Images range from an intense
texture of a horses dark and gleaming hair to a corpse of a bird, highlighting loss and
anticipation.
Bengtsson (b. 1998) is a current student on BA Photography at HDK-Valand, from
Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Grupputställningar
2025 – This Must Be the Place, Humanistiska Biblioteket, Göteborg
2025 – Heatproof, Gallery Monitor, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2025 – This Must Be the Place, Göteborgs Litteraturhus, Göteborg
2024 – STUDIO PILOT for GAZA, Studio Pilot, Göteborg
2024 – The Things We Did and Didn't Do, Gallery Rotor2, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2024 – Always Starts With An Encounter, Street Gallery, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2024 – Arkiv, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2022 – Konstutställning till förmån för Suicide Zero 2022, Göteborg
2025 – This Must Be the Place, Humanistiska Biblioteket, Göteborg
2025 – Heatproof, Gallery Monitor, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2025 – This Must Be the Place, Göteborgs Litteraturhus, Göteborg
2024 – STUDIO PILOT for GAZA, Studio Pilot, Göteborg
2024 – The Things We Did and Didn't Do, Gallery Rotor2, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2024 – Always Starts With An Encounter, Street Gallery, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2024 – Arkiv, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2022 – Konstutställning till förmån för Suicide Zero 2022, Göteborg
Publikationer
2025 – Waiting to Live, Waiting to Die
2024 – Den sista julen
2024 – UGOT photography
2025 – Waiting to Live, Waiting to Die
2024 – Den sista julen
2024 – UGOT photography
Utbildning
2023-2026 – Konstnärligt kandidatprogram i fotografi, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
2023-2026 – Konstnärligt kandidatprogram i fotografi, HDK-Valand, Göteborg
Stipendium
2025 – Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen
2024 – Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen
2025 – Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen
2024 – Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen