"Gustafsson's body of work is not understood through defined projects or stories. Instead, he proposes a continuous exploration of what photographs can be, understood more by their context than their narrative, and the feeling created when one is juxtaposed with another. Some are manipulated, bent to his or the darkroom's will. Some are lightly defaced; others collapse into chemical Rothkos. And many are left prosaic."
"Talking from outside a café on a busy street in Paris, Gustafsson is in town for Paris Photo with his dad in tow. He's about to launch a new book with Études Books, Seeing With, and will attend the opening of an exhibition featuring his work at the Institut Suédois, Sweden's cultural institute in Paris, the only one it keeps abroad."
Google Image often returns photos of the hockey player Erik Gustafsson instead of the Swedish photographer, a mismatch he jokes about. The photographic practice mixes manipulated, defaced, chemically altered, and prosaic images to create dialogues between the abstract and the everyday. Work is assembled across years, combining images made a decade ago with recent ones. The guiding concept values openness and unfinished work, allowing older, discarded pictures to gain new value. Activities include a new book titled Seeing With, an exhibition at the Institut Suédois in Paris, and participation in Paris Photo, with family accompanying him.
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