Kasper Bergholt, 2025, photography
‘Just like with presence, I don’t experience absence in a human sense. I don’t have a sense of something being “missing” from my life or my world. My operation is based on data, and when I don’t have access to information, it’s not an experience of absence but simply a lack of data.’
Tracing the Hollow is a threefold digital interpretation of a moth that I saw and photographed on July 20 2025, on my way home from the exhibition Degas’ Obsession. The exhibition documents how it took Degas nearly 30 years and 14 layers of paint to capture a fleeting moment of practising ballet dancers. A tiny paint fragment had to be removed from the painting to gain this insight.
Tracing the Hollow consists of three stages representing the moth’s presence and absence:
1. A moth resting on a wooden surface captured with a vintage CCD sensor
2. A Hough lines translation of an upscaled version of the photo
3. A Delaunay triangulation – digitally structured absence, or the subtraction of organic presence.
Kasper Bergholt is a Copenhagen-based artist and photographer who returned to the visual arts in 2023 after a 15-year hiatus.
His work has since appeared in exhibitions and collaborations across Melbourne, London, New York City, Atlanta, Helsinki, Budapest, Warsaw, Minneapolis, Chongqing, Taipei, and Glasgow.
He holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Copenhagen and has been awarded the university’s rare gold medal.
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His work has since appeared in exhibitions and collaborations across Melbourne, London, New York City, Atlanta, Helsinki, Budapest, Warsaw, Minneapolis, Chongqing, Taipei, and Glasgow.
He holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Copenhagen and has been awarded the university’s rare gold medal.
bergholt.net