Guide to my exhibition Cadastral at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen (Part 9, final one): Oblique (2018) is the final series presented in the exhibition. Here is an edited extract from Laura Iversen’s essay “Between Dreams and New Reality” that accompanies the exhibition: "In Oblique (2018) Stenram has clipped photographs of bodies from sports magazines of the 1960s. The period was characterised by revolutionary ideas of emancipation from oppression, from restrictive traditions, from hierarchies, from police violence and from war. Citizens demanded the right to decide over their own bodies, desires and dreams. The body became a battleground and arena for self-realisation, in ways that are now relevant again. Stenram illustrates this by selecting details primarily from martial arts, but crops the images so tightly that we again mistrusts our gaze: are these closely interwound bodies in the throes of a loving or a brutal embrace? Without the full picture, both are possible. Like several of Stenram’s series, Oblique balances in the space of possibilities between several interpretations. The title Oblique is very apt in its ambivalence: Oblique can be understood as ‘slanting’, ‘hidden’, ‘evasive’, or as something violent: ‘a slash’. Created after Donald J. Trump came into power, the series is more than a comment on the quantitative, goal-oriented and achievement-minded ideas symbolised by sport. It also addresses the glorification of the individual, the misogynous and national-romantic demagogy of the 45th US president, and the shocks that his careless attitude to established truths sent through the normal world order. Linking the past and the present, Stenram questions power and power structures. And with the increasingly restrictive tendencies of contemporary realpolitik one glimpses spectres from the past that come back to destabilise our world-view. We see past and present fuse." Installation photos by Troels Jeppe and myself. The exhibition is supported by The Obel Family Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation, Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds, The Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Swedish Embassy in Copenhagen.