RAYMOND MEEKS – SONDER
2019-06-03Over the course of multiple summers, Meeks ventured the few miles from his home in the Catskill Mountain region of New York to a wooded place known in the area as Furlong, a gathering place for generations of local youth, drawn there to jump over a waterfall that drops into a forbidding pond 60 feet below. Meeks shows these youth as a loose community perched on the cusp of adulthood, poised literally and figuratively on a precipice both in space and their lives.
Black-and-white photographs show young divers in mid-jump, Meeks’s camera momentarily arresting them in space as they drop beyond his frame into a black void. Other photographs show them picking their way through the surrounding woods, using trails pockmarked with debris and graffiti-marked rocks. Interposed are color pictures of thin trees and vegetation photographed from a car, simultaneously sharply rendered and blurred by velocity. Taken altogether, these pictures present a nearly prayerlike sense of ritual, a procession of youth accelerating into something unknown yet vitally necessary, with a fleeting, quiet weightlessness at its center.
Opposite – Wes Mills
Exhibition runs through to August 17th, 2019
Casemore Kirkeby
1275 Minnesota Street, #102
San Francisco
94107 CA
