NORMAL

Normal — Robert Olson is part of a series of works, within Katrin Kamrau reflects on a set of images, used in a Kodak manual The Joy of Photography, published 1980. „ ... The authors of the publication characterise the ideal reference image in the original English-language edition as »Normal«.“ The Dutch and German-language versions contain the misleading terms »Normaal« and »NORMAL«. „In the conjunction of physiognomically identical representations, the artist shifts the search for the impeccable colour print onto our social perception of ourselves and of others, which is fundamentally influenced by standardised advertising images. — Juliane Schickedanz, Bielefelder Kunstverein