Set primarily on the Swedish island of Öland, home to roughly 350 historic windmills, the book moves beyond straightforward documentation. Instead, it embraces an artistic interpretation of these structures, transforming them into visual metaphors. Through black-and-white photography, Dawid isolates elements of texture, structure, and decay, allowing each image to resonate on both a material and symbolic level. The book is a carefully composed visual sequence, offering viewers an almost meditative experience.
Dawid has been called Sweden’s first post-modern artist and has for over thirty years been making series of photographically based artworks examining the nature of the medium and exploring issues of perception. He began photographing in the late sixties, documenting incongruous moments with a wry sense of humour, until he established his signature style of stark graphic illustration, initiated by the seminal Rost series. His work often balances on a tight rope between the graphic and the photographic and reflects, criticises, and parallels the chequered history and changing status of photography.
Dawid: VDRKVRNR
2025
