Antechamber: Photographic work by Lise Johansson

May 1st – June 16th, 2026

Antechamber brings together works from Resort, Within Frames, Absence and I’m Not Here in an exhibition of staged interiors and perceptual tension.

Traditionally, an antechamber is a transitional space ; a room one passes through before reaching a more private or significant interior. A place of waiting, of anticipation, of partial access. This notion sits at the heart of Lise Johansson’s practice, in which the viewer is repeatedly positioned at the threshold of an image that withholds as much as it discloses.

Johansson approaches photography not as a medium that describes space, but as one that quietly destabilizes it. Her images exist in a state of suspension, between presence and absence, interior and exterior, the familiar and the estranged. Precise yet elusive, her compositions resist narrative resolution and open instead onto a field of psychological intensity.

Throughout the exhibition, spaces appear carefully ordered yet subtly dislocated. Architectural elements, light and perspective are orchestrated to produce a sense of hesitation, as though something has just occurred, or is on the verge of occurring. Where figures appear, they remain distant or absorbed, deepening the atmosphere of detachment rather than anchoring the image in human certainty.

Like the antechamber itself, these works offer proximity without full access. They suggest intimacy, then hold it just out of reach. The viewer is invited to look, but not to enter,  suspended in a space of anticipation where the familiar begins to shift and meaning is endlessly deferred.

Opening : May 1st,  4 pm – 7 pm
Where:  In The Gallery Copenhagen – Dronningens Tvaergade 19, 1302 Copenhagen