Désirée Dolron

Oblivion I (1997), by Desirée Dolron (1963, the Netherlands) shows a child. It’s a muted image, only highlighting parts of his body. Looking closely, one notices the skin, glowing effervescently within the solemn dark. The photograph was made in a cocoon, hidden away inside a shell in which the boys turns inwards completely, detached from the world both figuratively and literally. It’s an inquiry into the passing of time, the finite and the transcendent, and into the complexity and impermanence of the human condition, wrought by Dolron with acute sincerity and unsettling honesty.