The Photographer is 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 own 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.

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Magnus Frederik Clausen (DK) 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 (US) 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.

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