Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, 2016
Complex political, human and social issues, such as death, are rarely conceptualized outside the canonical photo-documentary. This project sets out to reflect on the gaps in understanding, information and representation and the deep rooted anxieties around ethics and aesthetics that inevitably arise when documentary photography and questions of visibility intersect.
more >Systems of a Down (d), 2015
This project resulted from an unprecedented, 18-month long collaboration with the BMW Group.
Conceived around the simple premise of ‘slowing down time’, this project undertakes an examination and articulation of the world of flux and flow that we live in, a world defined, haunted and consumed by mobility and transience.
00:00.00, 2015
This project resulted from an unprecedented, 18-month long collaboration with the BMW Group.
Conceived around the simple premise of ‘slowing down time’, this project undertakes an examination and articulation of the world of flux and flow that we live in, a world defined, haunted and consumed by mobility and transience.
The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, 2014
In 2012 I approached the European Space Agency with a very ambitious proposal: to produce the most comprehensive survey ever assembled about a leading scientific and space exploration organization. This projects reflects, therefore, on the new politics of space exploration as well as the impact of this kind of technological application on our social consciousness.
more >The Time Machine, 2011
Shot between 2010 and 2011, The Time Machine is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants.
In recovering a past of exciting technological innovation and optimistic belief in the future, these photographs suggest that they are not just about the generation of power but also of dreams and technological utopias. Because the future announced there is here now; and now we know that nothing has happened in the way that the ideological narrative of the modern wanted us to believe that it would.
Black Minutes of Memorial Snow, 2010
Black Minutes of Memorial Snow is titled after Alfred Jarry’s Black Minutes of Memorial Sand, an irreverent and apocalyptic Symbolist text. It borrows Jarry’s hallucinatory and apocalyptic metaphors to tell the tale of a family’s dystopian journey to the mountains of Innsbruck.
more >A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings, 2010
Shot entirely in a mock-up town, built in 2003, to train the Firearms and Public Order Units of the UK’s Metropolitan Police, this series deals with urbanism in all its contradictoriness and ambiguity.
This ultra-realistic specialist training centre is not just a simulacrum of contemporary British towns, it is also a metaphor for the modern asocial city. Nothing moves in or out of these buildings.
The Inequalities in the Motion of the Stars, 2008
This project consists of a collection of experimental images, produced over a period of many years, where the camera was rendered obsolete. Notwithstanding this, it references the mechanics of the photographic/photometric process and its two most important variables/interactions: time/light.
The images were conceived by producing reflective scans of small, 4×5” sheets of sticky paper, which were left in select areas of my home and studio for extended periods of time, to collect dust.
The Rate of Convergence of Two Opposing System Trajectories, 2009
Produced in unfinished residential and commercial developments in the US and Europe, at the height of the 2008 housing crisis, these images deploy playful metaphors, using debris found on site, to suggest a place uncertain of its future.
more >This is not a House, 2008
Produced in eight separate states across sixteen different US locations, these carefully researched sites expose the full extent, latitude and impact of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and the pervasive weaknesses in the regulation of the financial industry and the global financial system.
more >The Logic of Irreconcilable Similarities, 2008
This series arised from a collaboration with architect, writer and curator of design and architecture at MoMA, Pedro Gadanho, and was first presented in a project titled ‘Interiores’.
The book and related exhibition brought together images and artworks by eight artists who responded to Gadanho’s built architectural projects: the houses, the spaces and the objects designed by the architect. These photographs focus on the inner space of each construction. These are psychological interiors.