Grundemark Nilsson Gallery cordially invites you to this year´s edition of the Paris Photo. We are attending for the first time and are showing a solo exhibition by DAWID. The fair will take place from the 12th to the 15th of November at the Grand Palais, meet us at booth D40.

…We are on the path of what it means to make a sense of things, to understand what is represented. But to do this here, in the case of the photographer Dawid, or more accurate to say the artist Dawid, whose hundreds of images, primarily in serial suites of forms and variations, have long been called anti-photographs, and whose will is to live within the feints and strategies of the anti-reportorial, the anti-documentary, the anti-decisive-moment, to reverse Henri Cartier-Bresson’s claim for the photograph as an evidentiary form of truth. To invoke Hermes here is first to call up the word “hermetic,” the inwardly turned and obscure, and then, in response, to summon the hermeneutic act, the art of questioning and illuminating. This is the photographic medium under interrogation. But this interrogative form doesn’t only concern photographic image production or even, more generally, representation, but also (to make just a small claim) the materiality of a thing and the nature of a thing, the categorization of things and their being. The unclear, the impure, the hesitant and latent, the willful decision to trade clarity for the porousness and labile mystery of things are there in these suites of images made over decades as a comedy of categorical imperatives thrown into the air and come down as questions and shadows…
- Steven Henry Madoff

Dawid (Björn Dawidsson) is one of Sweden’s most respected and well known photo based artists.