Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Precarious Precision * John Divola

A fragile choreography of construction sites, where abandoned materials become sculptural through deliberate framing, precise lighting, and spatial tension, transforming debris into visual structure; in one image, wooden planks intersect mid-air within a cinder block window, evoking both collapse and control, while elsewhere, metal strips lean against a cart in a bare room, asserting verticality amid horizontal emptiness, and in the outdoor trench scene, a lone rod slices the frame, turning the cut in the earth into a form of negative architecture, suggesting that disorder, once composed, reveals latent geometries and moments of formal balance.