FRACTURE

Frank Oudeman’s work challenges photography’s presumed qualities of stillness, fixedness, and instantaneity. Focusing on real-world scenes, he uses multiple exposures to fragment the photographic surface and disrupt the idea of a singular moment or a unitary point of view. By recording recognizable features successively and from different perspectives, he frees them from their specific spatial reality. He uses reflective surfaces to pull peripheral imagery into the frame, collapsing multiple spaces and times into a single image. With simple modifications to his camera, he composes and assembles legible but incongruous bits of space, color, form, and light.