EXHIBITIONS

ROBERT LUND

Trance Bible Index

13.06 – 31.07.2026

Trance Bible Index is the culmination of a long-running photographic project by Robert Lund. Through intuitive image-making and layered montages, he creates open-ended narratives where meaning emerges between the conscious and subconscious.

A continuous vein throughout the work of Danish photographer Robert Lund, has been his use of photography as a means of navigating life and mitigating a returning sense of not belonging. His stream-of-consciousness documentation of his surroundings has resulted in the amassing of an archive that is part visual diary, part imperfect evidentiary photography.

Largely driven by instinct, the photographer describes his process as trance- like when best, or sometimes even as a photographic nervous tick, when shooting images of people, objects and places – images that take on new meaning and reveal their underlying stories when combined in Robert Lund’s handmade montages, in which barely visible pencil lines and weathered lead-sheets occasionally accentuate the tactility of the multi-image pieces.

Drawing on his background in alternative music, Robert Lund uses photographs to change, influence and emphasize each other, not unlike the stacking of sounds in multitrack recordings.
Mostly black and white, these images range from ghostly abstractions to sober registrations, but are ultimately tied together by a poeticism that can appear cold, unsettling or mournful, but is, at its core, both romantic and fragile, demonstrating how numbness and hypersensitivity is connected and only separated by a very thin line. Robert Lund’s photographic choices reveal a theme of alienation in an outsider’s survey of the world, but also serves as a celebration of its unexpected beauty and random connections.

Trance Bible Index is not only Robert Lund’s first major solo exhibition, but also a chapter marker of a long-running and ongoing project. It is an attempt at solving an unsolvable puzzle and relating the intangible, through pattern recognition, incidental geometry and clashing narratives, all by means of a visual domino effect, that is both coincidental and premeditated.

Trance Bible Index broadens the way photography can be shown and experienced, while the archival and textural nature of the exhibition ultimately serves to bring forward a collection of images mapping out an emotional framework of thinly veiled memories and storylines, arranged in chain-reactive combinations, that even invites the viewer to conjure up their very own.