RAYS-XOX
59 745 kr / 5 183 €
Includes 5% art tax

Tammo Rist
Artist · Oslo, Norway
| Size | 125 × 60 × 7 cm |
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| Year | 2016 |
Rays is a small series of three photographs made with a deliberately “incomplete” camera: images taken with a camera, but without a lens. By letting light enter directly—sometimes analog, sometimes digital—the work goes back to photography’s earliest drama: exposure, colour, and the physics of seeing.
What you’re looking at isn’t a scene in the usual sense. The shapes arrive through stray light, reflections, partial obstructions, and cropped fragments of the world—incidental, yet never random. It may feel like chance, but every flare and gradient follows its own strict rules.
The images refuse to “tell a story” in the usual way. They don’t point outward toward a narrative—they pull you inward toward perception itself: light becoming colour, colour becoming space, space becoming mood. Whatever you read into them is the point; the meaning isn’t depicted, it’s produced in the moment of looking.
This piece is unique (1/1)
This is a one-off. There isn’t another copy, and there won’t be.
If you’re here for something that holds up over time — visually and conceptually — you’re in the right place. This work comes from a practice built across many years and many contexts: from independent local scenes to major institutions.
Unique works are the ones people regret not buying — not because they’re “better”, but because hesitation has consequences: you can’t come back later and find the same piece waiting for you.
It comes with the cleanest provenance possible — directly from the studio.
And hey! if you’re unsure about size: send me a wall photo with measurements and I’ll tell you what will actually work.