The exhibition brings together two photographic series and a singular work that explore, through distinct yet interrelated approaches, photography’s relationship to time, perception, atmosphere, and presence.

Through the repeated photographing of the same clock tower at a fixed time of day over the course of more than a year, as well as through a close examination of variations in materiality, quality, and length among a set of found school rulers—where a nominal measure of thirty centimetres unfolds into multiple actual dimensions—Olof Nimar’s practice articulates an interval between standardisation and lived experience. Within this interval, everyday objects and situations are endowed with an intensified resonance, as contingency and chance are gathered, oriented, and condensed through the cumulative logic of repetition.

The images sustain a tension between containment and continuity: between photography’s capacity to delimit a condition and the persistent flow of time. Meaning emerges through relational structures, generated by the interplay among the image’s constituent elements, rather than through the capture of a singular, self-contained moment.

before this, until then presents photography as a temporal and spatial field in which time and extension are measured, displaced, and intensified, rendering the image an active site of duration.

Olof Nimar (b. 1985) is an artist based in Malmö. He has studied at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts and the Malmö Art Academy, where he graduated in 2011. Nimar has participated in several exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, including Andys Gallery, Stockholm; Bienvenue Art, Paris; Ystad Konstmuseum; Olseröds Konsthall; Galleri Format, Malmö; Goya Curtain, Tokyo; BiquiniWax, Mexico City and Trondheim Kunstmuseum.