Playful crops from archive family photographs offer glimpses of lovers’ gestures and the potential suggestions they evoke. In his acclaimed 1912 novel, The Serious Game, Hjalmar Söderberg presents us with a dark philosophy of love, as two characters unable to entirely accept their mutual feelings are destined for a life ‘forever in love’ but always separate and painfully burdened by memory. In his words: “Nature has fortunately endowed human beings with the ability to forget. Otherwise, it would be impossible to tolerate living.”

However, a photograph does not have ‘the ability to forget’ and these stolen moments from the family album reveal hidden spaces and unspoken histories that resonate with Söderberg’s melancholy tale.