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until 12.04. | #4588ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler shows from 28. February 2025 the exhibition NO STONE UNTURNED by the artist Jay Mark Johnson.
The large-format photographs by American artist and director Jay Mark Johnson achieve something that is otherwise denied to the medium of photography: with the help of a self-modified panoramic camera, they record continuous movement. To do this, Johnson breaks with our viewing habits and creates a new visual language that initially appears puzzling to the viewer. At the same time, he sets the parameters of his recordings in such a way that the visual shifts remain subtle: the visual appeal of his carefully staged images stems from the tension between the seemingly familiar and the mysteriously different.
In the exhibition NO STONE UNTURNED, he focuses on the often invasive, short-sighted and non-holistic human interventions in nature, be it through mining, deforestation, urban sprawl, traffic, wars or tourism. The increasing destruction of our environment as an ever-advancing development is reflected in the processual nature of his photographs. Special attention is also paid to the contrast between nature and technology in the form of heavy machinery, such as in the works FLY ROCK #2 and CARBON DATING #1, both photographed in Kentucky, USA, or OFF TO BE MILKED BY MACHINES from New South Wales, Australia. Some of the images from Kenya and Zimbabwe also show human intervention in the form of safari tourism, as in AMBOSELI #126 and MASAI MARA #134, but views of unspoilt landscapes also offer hope for a more mindful approach to the world’s last remaining nature reserves.
Vernissage: Friday, 28 February 2025, 7 pm
Exhibition period: Friday, 28 February – Saturday, 12 April 2025
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Image caption: CARBON DATING #1, Hazard, Kentucky 2008, UltraChrome Pigmentdruck auf Aludibond/Plexiglas,160 x 746 cm
Exhibition Jay Mark Johnson – Galerie Deschler | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
