We are pleased to present the exhibition Fullmoons with works by Darren Almond at Galleri K. This exhibition includes a selection of Fullmoon Photographs by Almond and bronze work from his ongoing Trainplate series.

Darren Almond (born 1971 in Wigan, England) is a conceptual artist whose work revolves around themes of personal memory, cultural history and time itself. Ideas that connect the Fullmoon series – landscape photographs taken with long exposure times at night – to his work in other media, such as Almond´s sculptures made from clocks or films that explore nature and culture in extreme regions of the world.

Almond´s Fullmoon series foregrounds relationships between light, space and time: ”With long exposures, you can never see what you are shooting”, Almond says, ”but you are giving the landscape longer to express itself.” Taken from a point of immersion in the natural surroundings, Almond´s photographs allow the landscape to reveal its own history and suggest the direction its future might take.

”Almond, whether setting up his camera to take the first, almost accidental, of the Fullmoon photographs, or embarking on excursions and explorations of great complexity and even some danger, his vision at such moments is haunted, fretted, by so many other presences: the artists and writers who have been there before him, the myths and other stories that we have told over centuries about the night and about the moon, and the present anxieties that we project into the dark. Almond sees all of that, and waits for it to become visible”