Open book with a photograph of a cityscape at dusk on the right page.

Open book showing a photograph of a cityscape with birds flying in the sky.

Open book showing a vibrant sunset landscape

Open book showing a photograph of a sunset over a cityscape.

Open book showing a page with a red and orange sunset over a cityscape.

Oslo Arkiv - Ole John Aandal

$80.00

On 22 July 2011, a right-wing extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo’s Government Quarter, killing eight people. Disguised in a police uniform, he then travelled to the island of Utøya, taking the lives of sixty-nine young participants at a summer camp in a mass shooting. From that day and in the decade that followed, Ole John Aandal photographed the view from his balcony overlooking the Government Quarter. Oslo Arkiv gathers a selection of this extensive archive, poignantly tracing how a city learns to endure loss. Across 480 pages, Oslo Arkiv transforms repetition into reflection, inviting readers to move back in time as both witnesses and participants in a shared process of remembrance. Published in a limited edition of 750 signed and numbered copies, this artist’s book stands as Aandal’s most ambitious work to date: a monumental work serving as both memorial and visual archive, wherein grief, attention, and the slow passage of time converge.