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5/9/2005

Alex Hartley

Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Don’t Want to be Part of Your World

Opening September 6, Victoria Miro Gallery presents a new body of work by Alex Hartley. For this series Hartley has taken large-format landscape photographs in remote locations around the world. To these idyllic, desolate vistas he has inserted detailed architectural models meticulously built in relief on the surfaces: deserted geo-domes nestle amongst the rocks of the Mojave Desert, a Bond villain glass-walled retreat sits unassailable on a high Arctic ridge, a crumbling Case Study house sits abandoned on a plain, slowly returning to the California desert. Within the esoteric narratives that the works establish lies a subtle sense of failure, a dystopian vision of architecture and attempts to inhabit the uninhabitable. This exhibition marks a departure from the encased photographs of architectural spaces for which Hartley is well known, and denotes a shift in Hartley’s focus from a formal concern with the representation of space to an interest in how we imagine ourselves within it.

Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road N1 7RW, London

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