A selection of photographic works
Fragments of a Dawn Haze
Photographic installation / Door and tunnel 3.6 m × Ø 2.2 m / Well with water where 31 photographic symbols are projected / Scent of leaves and branches / Flickering fluorescent light with sound
What happens when what once felt certain begins to shift? When the self-evident loses its contours?
In Fragments of a Dawn Haze, Peter Wendel explores the fragile borderland between perception and the unconscious — a space where symbols return not as answers, but as transformed questions. Shadows appear within the light, carrying traces of what cannot yet be articulated.
Visitors enter the exhibition through a 3,6-metre tunnel, a passage from the familiar to the uncertain. Inside, projected images move through layers of water and fabric, evoking a sense of transition — between night and day, inner and outer, seen and unseen.
The work invites stillness and slow observation. It is less about resolution than about remaining within the moment before clarity — a dawn haze that never fully lifts.
Master’s degree project, HDK-Valand, 2025.
See moore at HDK Valand Graduation
Capsule of Fragments
Photographic installation / Capsule 3.6 × 2.2 × 1.5 m covered in fabric / Three analogue TV screens / Projection of 100-year-old family photographs / Headphones with ambient sound. On the fabric of the capsule, images from a century of family memories are projected, while three TV screens show the artist's own symbolic images. The visitor sits alone in a room of light and sound where the private meets the collective, and time moves like a silent echo between memory and dream.
From Within
Photographic installation / Dim room / Hanging photo album pages with wires from the ceiling / Voice: Bob Hansson, Shadows Matter / Flashlights for visitors
In From Within, childhood photo albums and emotional images of adulthood meet. The pages hang freely in the darkness, illuminated by visitors' flashlights. A voice reads Shadows Matter and memories are brought to life — not to provide answers, but to raise questions about what really happened, what is missing and what is only felt but never seen.
“From Within presents painfully refined photographs by Gothenburg-based artist Peter Wendel. In three unconventional and scenographically staged acts, he processes and visualises his memories. Drawing on childhood recollections, Wendel skillfully intertwines experiences from Berlin and Tokyo — family albums and life’s transience, physical pain as a distraction from inner anxiety, lived lives etched as deep traces in the faces of the elderly. His black-and-white photographs become vessels for the existential conditions of human existence. Slow processes, time for reflection. These visual stage rooms evoke experiences reminiscent of compelling one-act plays in the theatre.”
NT, Norrköpings Tidningar, Christer Fällman
Publications
Peter Wendel’s trilogy — Behind the Sofa (2021), Missing Pages (2022) and The Suit Is Sewn in Silence (2023) — traces an ongoing dialogue between memory, time, and the unconscious.
Each book unfolds as a fragment of a larger narrative, where absence and reflection shape the image as much as what is seen.
“Thoughtful and tender images where poetry is almost physically present. An existential reconciliation with the past. You find human alienation but also moments of raw intimacy.”
— Anders Petersen, about Behind the Sofa
See moore at:
Bookshop
Journal Photobooks
Le blog de Fabien Ribery
Behind the Sofa
Missing Pages
The Suit Is Sewn in Silence
Print
lacouleurdesjours, Missing Pages
Youtube
Ted Forbes about The Suit Is Sewn in Silence
Lars Dareberg about The Suit Is Sewn in Silence