JOHN DIVOLA

23 Nov 2012-2 Feb 2013

Overview

John Divolas practice is intertwined with marginal spaces in and around the suburbs and the desert, and the various abandoned and isolated dwellings of Los Angeles. With a career spanning four decades, John Divola is distinctive for his commitment to photography. The notion that a photograph is anchored in a specificity of time, place and circumstance, and the artists’ complicity in relation to that is central to an understanding of Divola’s practice. In Divola’s photographs the instant is openly acknowledged as past, the photograph implicitly a fragment.