Beschreibung
Message from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in a harsh environment. Ruwedel's photographs address the collision of promise and reality in the American desert by depicting small, sometimes eccentric, abandoned houses that suggest the stories of anonymous individuals and their desire to create homes in the "wilderness," however transitory. Evoking both violence and tragedy, the houses and the land they occupy appear to be crime scenes. The first part of the book contains eighty-eight photographs from Ruwedel's archive of "Desert Houses." The second part presents the related series "Dusk," in which twenty-eight images of desert houses after sunset create subtle dark tones, paralleling the subject's social and geographic isolation.
Autorenportrait
Born in Pennsylvania in 1954, Mark Ruwedel currently lives in Long Beach, California. Ruwedel has exhibited and published internationally for almost thirty years and his work is held in museums including Tate Modern, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He received this year's Guggenheim Fellowship and Scotia Bank Award.
