This black and white photograph depicts an abstract sculptural composition placed within a dilapidated interior space. The prominent visual elements include sharp, angular geometric forms that intersect and interact with the damaged and fragmented walls around them. The overall composition has a sense of tension and disruption, with the asymmetrical arrangement of the sculptural elements contrasting with the crumbling, uncertain environment. The artwork appears to explore themes of decay, instability, and the relationship between the constructed and the natural. The artist's intention may have been to challenge traditional notions of space, form, and the function of sculptural objects within a deteriorating context. ...
John Divola works at the intersection of photography, conceptual art, and performance, using the camera not simply as a recording device but as a tool for intervention. His work often stages encounters between human gesture and abandoned or transitional spaces, revealing traces of history, presence, and absence. By marking, painting, or otherwise altering interiors before photographing them, Divola transforms sites of decay into charged visual fields, where entropy and creation exist side by side. Central to his practice is the tension between order and disorder, beauty and destruction, intimacy and distance—capturing how environments bear the marks of time and human activity. His work unfolds through several trajectories. On one side, Divola documents derelict buildings and desert landscapes, transforming neglected spaces into sites of artistic experimentation. These photographs emphasize impermanence, the poetics of ruin, and the fragility of habitation. On the other, he stages direct interventions—spraying paint, scattering objects, or inscribing walls—gestures that blur the line between evidence and artwork. By collapsing documentary and performative approaches, Divola highlights photography’s dual capacity to both reveal and fabricate reality. His practice ultimately reflects on how we perceive the world in states of transition, turning overlooked spaces into meditations on memory, time, and the human imprint. ...
Super Dakota is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2013 supporting both emerging international artists and established leading artists. The gallery presents multi-disciplinary works with an emphasis on new technologies. They collaborate with galleries and institutions around the world and are committed to developing the career of the artists they represent. Their practice, ethics and integrity are the very core of their project. The galleries program highlights contemporary issues embedded in the zeitgeist and their exhibitions explore cultural, political as well as social contents. Artists exhibited at Super Dakota include but not exclusively: Mark Leckey, Paul McCarthy, Elizabeth Peyton, Adam Pendleton, Jeremy Deller, Alberta Whittle, Wade Guyton, Alexandra Domanovic, Julia Wachtel, Metahaven, Tabor Robak, John Divola, Jan Groover, Math Bass, Lawrence Weiner, Jacob Kassay, Oliver Laric, Magali Reus, Lothar Hempel, Neïl Beloufa, Sin Wai Kin, Bruce Nauman, Sanam Khatibi, Yvonne Rainer, Fischli & Weiss, Raymond Pettibon, Christine Wang, Sarah Abu Abdallah, Fred Sandback, Slavs and Tatars. ...
