Isolation Location by David Johnson

My artwork examines the concrete intersections of society, architecture and the individual. In my process, I search for revealing details within the commonalities of everyday man-made environments, as I examine domestic, office and exhibition spaces. These photographs are organized abstractly with plays between volume and surface. The images are meant to create a sense of instability in perceived ideas of self and place for the viewer.

“Location Isolation” is a photographic series that documents the Isolation Room/Gallery kit in its established setting as an apartment gallery in Saint Louis and then presented in a pop up exhibition in Copenhagen. These images depict bare walls of the gallery and the surrounding domestic situation just beyond its temporary walls. Scarred with screw holes from past installations illustrates the history of space, while the transition from cool day light to warm artificial light of the gallery creates a tonal shift. The details of the space, which exist below the viewer’s threshold, are abstractly composed within the camera. The subjects in the photographs fluctuate between vaguely suggestive and quietly unsettling.

ALL IMAGES: Institutional Etiquette and Strange Overtones, 2011-2012