The Photographer
Book launch at O–Overgaden, June 21, 2025, 16:00–20:00
Performance at 17:00
The Photographer is a new artist’s book by Magnus Frederik Clausen and Jason Hirata, published by Adagio for Things. The book centres on a photographic collaboration with two gallery attendants, Melle de Boer and Angelus Sven Schnabl, who documented Clausen’s and Hirata’s exhibitions — Werkgelegenheid and Interruptions and Coincidence — at Billytown, an artist-run space in The Hague during the summer of 2023.
Equipped with an analogue camera and three rolls of dia film sent by the artists, Melle and Angelus photographed the exhibitions from their perspective, shaped by daily rhythms of unlocking doors, welcoming guests, and caring for the space. Through their images, a third work emerged — a poetic and amateur form of exhibition documentation that reframes presence, maintenance, and proximity as artistic gestures in themselves.
Join us for the launch at O—Overgaden in Copenhagen on Saturday, June 21 at 16:00. A performance in relation to the book will take place at 17:00.
BIO:
Magnus Frederik Clausen was born on Sunday the 1st of March in 1981 in Hillerød and lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He works with authorship and repetition to examine how value is formed through the act of making.
Jason Hirata was born on Tuesday the 25th of February in 1986 in Seattle and lives and works in New Jersey, USA. Heteronomy and contingency are his primary artistic materials. He uses them to ask basic questions about our surroundings and selves.