Joshua Ballew: Archive of the Ordinary
The series featured today is a wonderful exploration of items he has come across in various books. Between the Sheets are little messages or totems that connect us to another human and offer a sense of history and what has come before.
Each diptych exists as a faceless portrait of the previous owner offering more questions than definitive answers. Pairing the items with an image of the pages on which they were found, allows for the banality of each item to contrast the sensational lines of text and titles of each book. This disparity between the real and the ideal becomes the focus of the work, speaking directly to the desire of escapism fulfilled within the pages of each book.
Posts on Lenscratch may not be reproduced without the permission of the Lenscratch staff and the photographer.
Recommended
-
Tara Sellios: Ask Now the BeastsApril 6th, 2024
-
ALEXIS MARTINO: The Collapsing Panorama April 4th, 2024
-
Emilio Rojas: On Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands: The New MestizaMarch 30th, 2024
-
Artists of Türkiye: Eren SulamaciMarch 27th, 2024
-
Love and Loss in the Cosmos: Valeria Sestua In Conversation with Vicente IsaíasMarch 19th, 2024