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André ClemetsenAdjacent Solitude

Theme: Loneliness
39 photographs and 25 poems

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  1. More than just a human being
  2. The prison I made myself
  3. The gutter was my playground
  4. The summer that never shines
  5. My legs are so tired
  6. An open circus
  7. The last ghost in our city
  8. Even the darkest room
  9. Life will never be a circus
  10. The trees showed joy
  11. At home in my city
  12. The sea gives me dreams
  13. A loneliness without colour
  14. A life of rehearsal
  15. Do not leave me where I lie
  16. A mountain no wind can move
  17. The trees along the river
  18. To change one's gaze
  19. The city is colourblind
  20. Rain is the only mirror
  21. I will not surrender my origin
  22. Split in two
  23. Madness is beautiful
  24. A fistful of dollars
  25. The city faces the storm
About the series

André Clemetsen photographed people who live among others and are lonely anyway. Each work is one or two photographs and a poem he wrote to them.

The series came before every submission and is the first work in the exhibition.

The theme

Loneliness

The distance between people in a built-up place. André Clemetsen worked this subject across the rooms of Volume 1, and the theme takes other series alongside it. Send the street, the stairwell, the shelter at the edge of an estate, the window with the curtains drawn at four in the afternoon, with whoever is in it.

What has been measuredOther series under this theme

About the photographer

André Clemetsen

Photographer, based in Norway. He made the photographs and wrote the poems of Adjacent Solitude, and he selects the series for Concrete Human with the founding team.

Clemetsen Art / Film & Photographs

An exhibition for your venue26 panels, 100 × 100 cmEach with the photographs, the poem and a scientific findingView the exhibition

Concrete Human

André Clemetsen

The summer that never shines

We wait for the summer that never shines between the streets we never escape from.

Loneliness is a prison not even God can open the gate to.

756 people carried an app that asked them at random moments how crowded the place around them felt and whether they felt lonely. Between April 2018 and March 2020 they answered 16,602 times. The mental health researcher Ryan Hammoud and colleagues found people about 40% more likely to feel lonely at a moment when the place felt crowded. When they felt part of what was going on, the odds ran about a fifth lower.

Ryan Hammoud and others, Scientific Reports, 2021

doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03398-2