car crash studies nicolai howalt

Nicolai Howalt: Car Crash Studies

Nicolai Howalt, Copenhagen born visual artist working at the intersection of conceptual photography and installation, produces thought provoking work, often documentary in style.  His series “Car Crash Studies” (2009), moves between documentation and abstraction for a photographic study of cars involved in serious to fatal car crashes.  Begging its viewer to confront the human fear of trauma and death, collided bodyworks, dents, cracks illustrate instances of beauty created from suffering, pain and destruction.  Furthermore, Car Crash Studies attempts to portray a mental state, and as Howalt explains, “the duality we feel in relation to accidents or catastrophes when experienced from a distance – as spectators.”

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available for purchase at www.etudes-studio.com/books/nicolai-howalt/




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