Exhibition:
'Short stories about the instrumental animal'
Gary Green, Kirk Crippens & Gretche Le Maistre, David Wilson, and Simon Gush
October, 2020
Modernity crushes the individual against itself. The theme is central to Simon Gush's work. In the film "Lazy Nigel," the South African director offers glimpses of alienated everyday life, anonymous construction, and a landscape bent on productivity. The "Live Burls" project, by Kirk Crippens and Gretchen LeMaistre, testifies to a brutal cruelty revealed on the majestic sacred trees of the American West Coast. In 2013, the well-known Redwood National Park and other natural parks in Northern California, which are home to the planet's giants, suffered severe aggression from poachers, which threatened the survival of the entire ecosystem. From the coast to the mountains, human action unfolds. In "Shores Plains Mountains," David Wilson investigates the built landscape in his region. Views that document a fragmentation of space and simultaneously demonstrate a desire for abstraction. In Gary Green, the view reflected in the waters is a way to cope with what surrounds him through quiet contemplation of nature. Taken from a verse of the poem 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' by Wallace Stevens, the latest work created by the American photographer ("The River is Moving/The Blackbird Must be Flying") collects a series of peaceful observations along the banks of a stream in his town, Waterville, Maine.
