BOARDING HOUSE
2009-11-02Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “Boarding House,” a new series of photographs by Roger Ballen taken between 2004 and 2008. The Boarding House is a three-story warehouse hidden among the gold mines of Johannesburg and inhabited by disenfranchised, impoverished families, fugitives and witch doctors. Lacking walls, many rooms are separated only by rugs, blankets, and metal sheets. In his visually complex tableaux, Ballen forgoes a strictly documentary approach and casts further doubt on their veracity, intervening to alter each room, and collaborating directly with the subject to create the sculptures and drawings that appear in the photographs .
Exhibition runs though to December 23rd, 2009
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
NY
10075
USA
