Still Good, Still Life vol. iii: The Threat of Intimacy

Street Gallery Window Exhibition, Chalmersgatan 4, HDK-Valand

With The Threat of Intimacy, photographer Thurees Obenza presented the third exhibition in her ongoing Still Good, Still Life series, this time in a street gallery window display.

Unlike traditional gallery exhibitions, the window format meant the photographs were encountered by people simply passing by. Commuters, pedestrians, and curious onlookers often stopped to look and ask questions about the work.

Because of this public setting, Thurees approached the images differently. Instead of elaborate prop-heavy still life compositions, she moved toward bold, close-up photographs where fruits, eggs, tools, and everyday objects appear in moments of tension: hovering somewhere between care and threat.

The series explores how intimacy can exist between objects: things pressing too closely together, fragile surfaces at risk of breaking, or gestures that could easily shift from gentle to destructive.

Creating work for the street gallery was both a challenge and an experiment. The space required images that could be understood quickly from the sidewalk while still holding deeper layers for those who looked longer. For Thurees, the exhibition became a new way of thinking about how photography interacts with public space and with the people who encounter it unexpectedly.