PONTIAC, MICHIGAN.- The Museum of New Art is proud to present the first solo exhibition of photography by Stig Eklund in an American museum from March 12th through April 3rd.

Stig Eklund's photography seems to be pure documentary, opening a distant eye onto its lonely subjects. Eklund's camera lingers on darkened but captivating urban details, transforming citizens and architecture into murky denizens while heightening their ethereal demeanors.

His camera style is so strong that it can even shroud a street lamp, so that instead of light it somehow seems to emit darkness and shadows. His vision drapes geometrically clashing beauty with the sooty persona of a Norwegian artist who spends much of the year in his city’s glowering twilight.

Eklund's photographs are a repertoire of fractured architecture, of casual violence, and the solitary figures that inhabit this glimmering world. His work deals with the quiet despair of these figures, following their drama of isolation in the midst of an urban world. The characters are in a physical interaction by the mere presence of their bodies, but still they remain spiritually isolated. The glances, the placement, the attitudes of these shadowy figures and sites create an urban view built around a city’s innermost and darkest recesses, turning Eklund’s images into living frescoes of our time.

CITY LIGHTS is an installation of half-remembered dramas of time and place, only to be captured later out of the corner of the eye.

Stig Eklund was born in 1978 in Bergen, Norway. He lives and works in Oslo. His art has shown in Europe, Asia, and America.