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The photograph in the book is reproduced in two versions: one closer to its analogue origin and one where the image has remained longer in the digital materiality - an additional digital space, created by the artist. The silver grains in the film base of the photograph can easily be experienced on the outside of the pages, as the traces of the digital ones and zeroes in the hyper-digital version are almost inaccessible on the inside of the folded pages. To form a third layer, these two images are impossible to see in their complete state, the pages show only cuts. What is visible is a 100% reproduction, cropped by the size of the book page. By showing two different representations of the same photograph in this way, the artist wants to match his working process and the experiences from engaging with the book as medium. It is in the tension between either or and both that the book is formed, a space where Betshammar likes to work.   However, Despite the Haze You Can Still Get a Concrete Feeling for the Surroundings is a book that wants to encourage resistance and raise questions about the idea of the photobook itself - what and who creates it, and how readers respond. The book includes a short text by Kirsti Taylor Bye, and an even shorter one by Erik Betshammar.   Erik Betshammar (b. 1985) is a Swedish artist and photographer, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Betshammar works in the borderland between digital and analogue photographic technology. His work often consists of photographs, installations and texts, and his sometimes long titles provide an existential entry to his world of thought. He graduated in 2012 with an MFA in photography from the Högskolan för Fotografi (School of Photography) at the University of Gothenburg and has received multiple art grants. He has exhibited his work mainly in Scandinavia.   Kirsti Taylor Bye is a Norwegian artist and photographer. Jonas Williamsson is a Swedish graphic designer based in Stockholm.  Print: Narayana Press Null & Void Books creates books about contemporary phenomena in art and culture. The publishing program is focused on projects made in close collaboration with artists, writers and designers. Null & Void Books acts as foundation for a long-term working-platform for book projects produced and presented in specific contexts. The publications are available at selected bookstores, museums, art book fairs and via the worldwide web. Null & Void Books is based in Lund, Sweden and was started in 2014.

Moderna Museet exhibition catalogue no. 416: Björn Lövin -The Surrounding Reality Co-publishers: Moderna Museet & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König Texts: Gitte Ørskou, Matilda Olof-Ors, Rasmus Fleischer, Maria Lind & Helena Mattsson. Curator: Matilda Olof-Ors Concept and Editorial Work: Matilda Olof-Ors, Jonas Williamsson & Peo Olsson Design: Jonas Williamsson Photography: Albin Dahlström, Mats B, Ayao Yamazaki. Print: Narayana Press. About the exhibition: Björn Lövin -The Surrounding Reality Moderna Museet 2.4 - 18.9 2022 Stockholm With carefully chosen details, Björn Lövin (1937-2009) built up fictional worlds, like film sets, which the visitor could step into. In the exhibition "The Surrounding Reality", three of Björn Lövin's extensive environments have been reconstructed. Then, as now, visitors can enter the environments themselves and experience the art from up close. None of Björn Lövin's original environments were preserved after being presented in their respective exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s. The environments that you can see now in the exhibition are thus reconstructions interpreting and recreating a similar atmosphere as when the works were first shown. Extensive and winding research has been required to build up the environments. Based on photographs, films and archive documents, objects have been identified. These are the three environments that you will encounter in the exhibition: Consumer in Infinity and "Mr P's hoard", L'image and C - The struggle for reality. Curator: Matilda Olof-Ors About Björn Lövin Björn Lövin expanded traditional art genres and was one of the first Swedish artists in the late 1960s to make spatial installations, called environments at the time. He was born in Falun in 1937. In his youth Lövin studied in Barcelona, later attending Stockholm University and Uppsala University to study education, scientific theory and information technology. Despite his lack of formal artistic training, he had his first exhibition at Galleri Mejan in 1970, an early version of the more comprehensive exhibition Consumer in Infinity and "Mr P's Hoard" - two environments by Björn Lövin that was presented at Moderna Museet the following year. His large scale works were critical to totalitarian systems, ranging from the People's Home (Folkhemmet) to the consumption society, which includes some and excludes others and attract by offering an image of safety, but at the cost of individual freedom. His first solo show at Moderna Museet was curated by Pontus Hultén and later included solo shows at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Liljevalchs and Kulturhuset in Stockholm and at Malmö Konsthall amongst others.