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Background information
"Since 2015, John DIVOLA has been making photographic projects in an abandoned air force housing complex in Victorville, California. By intervening in the buildings’ disused interiors with spray paint then photographing the modified scenes, John DIVIOLA creates work that sits at an intriguing juncture of photography, sculpture, and installation. The images in 'Terminus' gaze down derelict hallways towards dark shapes which John DIVOLA has painted at their ends. Through layers of paint, dust, and plaster, they exert an unmistakable pull on the viewer, at once suggesting the deterministic forces of fate and the rupturing possibility of escape. Arranging and juxtaposing theses images within the book as a considered object, the artist leads the viewer on a stochastic and entrancing traverse through the abandoned compounds.
Content
Continuing the conceptual experimentation that has defined John DIVOLA’s oeuvre, 'Terminus' captures a tension between the observation of the specific and the insistence of the abstract. These are real places, shot in the available light of early morning, but altered by John DIVOLA’s obscure hieroglyphs they are alive with suggestions of symbolism and fiction. Sharp details testify to the abandonment and demise of half-familiar scenes even as they transfigure them into stage-like arenas for ideation. Within the transitional spaces of these passageways, we are always travelling and never arriving, caught between the tidal currents of history and speculation." (publisher's note, © Mack books, 2021)
Additional informations, about the signed edition
Foil embossed hardback bound in Japanese paper, 24 x 31,5 x 1,5 cm., 68 pages. The SIGNED edition includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover.