Drawing on a background in photography and lighting
Troelsgaard builds up his images like a painting paying carefully attention to the relation between forms, colours, and structures with the right amount of light and shadow in his creation of surreal landscapes and fictional characters. By twisting the visual expression of a recognizable everyday object and combining it with other elements Troelsgaard changes the ordinary into something extraordinary. In this way he reworks our physical surroundings into a language of his own with a mythical expression and quality.

The craft is always at the centre of Troelsgaards photography
in these momentarily staging’s where no digital manipulation is required afterwards. With a sharp creative eye, he is transforming his experience of the world into an artwork whether he is working with natural objects, artificial materials or human bodies in strange postures.

There is something slightly unsettling and thereby appealing in
these photographic scenarios revealing an emotional landscape underneath. An uncanny atmosphere within where power structures and the objectification of nature becomes a theme of representation in a dreamy and poetic universe.

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Claus Troelsgaard (b. 1986) is a photographer and visual artist based in Copenhagen. While working in the contemporary art field he explores the notion of materiality in our postmodern society creating sculptural compositions and staging’s with photographically determined and poetic aesthetics in carefully
crafted settings.