 Columbus, Ohio-28 (Architor Space series), 2003 C-Print, 30" x 40" Daniel Mirer Here Could Be Anywhere Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present "Here Could Be Anywhere", a presentation of recent works by Daniel Mirer. Daniel Mirer's artwork is a continuous examination and documentation of the postindustrial experience embodied in architectural spaces. His photographs expose the collapse of aestheticism that can be witnessed in the uniform design of office buildings, shopping malls, stadiums, open corridors, parking lots etc. The artist's architectural portraits record both the spatial and temporal dimensions of the postindustrial experience. Spatially, by photographing these industrial, mass-produced spaces from a frontal and sufficient distant point of view, which creates a flat, banal and melancholic aspect in the images which become revealed to the viewer. Within these spaces, the individual becomes insignificant and lost, vanishing from the glare of fluorescent light. Temporally, they evoke an often haunting sense of the ephemeral. Mirer's interest in these spaces was initiated from a firsthand experience of working as a construction and demolition worker in order to earn his way through college. He built and tore down the very type of spaces that he now photographs. These spaces are structured as rational grids, designed to eradicate suspicious and, above all, irrational thought through the police apparatus of surveillance in a transparency of space. They are spaces in which the flattening of shadows on surfaces creates an architecture without depth for the individual, who is buried, disappears, dissolves into its structure. This sense of an uncanny presence is introduced through Mirer's choice to photograph these spaces when they are empty. Even though these structures and spaces evoke a specific style relating to the history of architecture, they seem to exist outside of history, in a continuous present. They are spaces in which one office, corridor or parking lot is virtually indistinguishable from another, in which redundancy annihilates difference into an architectural singularity. Daniel Mirer has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the country, including Bronx Museum of the Arts, Florida Atlantic University & Contemporary Art Museum, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts curated by William Stover, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Open House: Working in Brooklyn. Exhibition: April 16 - May 17, 2004 Gallery hours: Wed-Mon 12 - 6 pm and by appointment Priska C. Juschka Fine Art 97 North 9th Street, (between Berry Street & Wythe Ave.) Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA Telephone 00718 782 4100 Fax 718 782 4800 Email gallery@priskajuschkafineart.com www.priskajuschkafineart.com |
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