“Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You”, initiated and organised by the Serpentine Galleries, London, and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Amira Gad, brings together a selection of photographic works and videos realised between 1999 and 2016 by the Norwegian artist. As Rødland explains, the title is connected with analogical processes: “the touch of the camera, the touch of the light hitting the film, the touch of the liquids running over the film during processing”, linked to the stickiness and intimacy of certain motifs, the encounters between two individuals or between objects and bodies. Rødland works with analog photography, creating staged and detailed mises-en-scène in which an element of control over people and objects coexists with an element of surprise, since the final result is visible only once the image is developed and printed. Renowned for his portraits, still lifes and landscapes, he intertwines a personal, poetic eye with the formal clearness of commercial images, transforming anatomical parts, everyday objects and natural elements into ambiguous fetishes that provoke feelings of repulsion and attraction, intimacy and foreignness, isolating or producing visual conflicts between materials, physical conditions and the exterior aspects of the subjects portrayed.