DOUG HALL – IN SILENCE
2020-05-04In Silence brings together excerpts from four different bodies of Doug Hall’s work spanning over twenty years that explore the theme of archives through its quintessential medium—photography. The earliest work is from The Archive Project (1995-96), created while Hall was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. These photographs of ancient archives in Naples and Rome reveal a humanist need to order that is being replaced and made widely available through the internet, furthering a process of democratization Hall characterizes as “devour[ing] epistemological palpability, its aura as well as its vain will to order.
Opposite – State Archive at Sant’ lvo alla Sapienza, Rome II, 1997/2017
Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2020
Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
