AgCl (Unexposed Silversalts)( 2010)

AgCl (Unexposed Silversalts) is a series of photographs of unexposed silversalts photographed through an electron microscope. The materiality and rhythm of these pictures referes to a modernist formal language and the letters "AgCl" of the title are the chemical formula of silver chloride, one of the main compounds used in chemical-based photography. Just as the photographs invite interpretation, its evident that scientific methods also need to be interpreted and explained. In this sense the photographs represent in different ways the same shadings of reality as depictions of the "real world".

Marte Aas
Marte Aas
AgCl (Unexposed Silver Salts) (2010) , silverprints, 80x110 cm.
Marte Aas
Marte Aas
AgCl (Unexposed Silver Salts) (2010) , silverprints, 80x110 cm.
Marte Aas
Marte Aas
AgCl (Unexposed Silver Salts) (2010) , silverprints, 80x110 cm.
Marte Aas
AgCl (Unexposed Silver Salts) (2010) , silverprints, 80x110 cm.
From the exhibition Marte Aas - Film and Photography, The National Museum of Art, Oslo, 2010
Marte Aas
Marte Aas
Transmission electron microscope at the Department of Physics, the University of Oslo.
The making of a silvercloride sample with Ole Bjørn Karlsen.