The soot that settled over books, furniture, and photographs in the home of Gunnar Smoliansky’s friend, Claes Bäckström, creates a new, almost dreamlike space. Smoliansky’s quiet, precise photographs capture these traces with the same attentiveness that defines his entire body of work. What might have been destruction becomes here a meditation on materiality, light, shadow, and the unexpected poetry of everyday life.

Published by Modernista, Stockholm, 2005
56 pages, 12×18,5 cm
36 black and white illustrations
ISBN: 91 88748 97 9
Hardcover, as well as special edition in binder