Terminus
By: John Divola
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: MACK
Published: 2021
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781913620080
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Abandoned buildings; Pictorial works; Black-and-white photography; History
Description: "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, Divola 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 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"--Publisher.
Notes: Chiefly illustrated

"Terminus is a singular work, not a collection of related images"--Colophon.