JOSEPH DESLER COSTA – DREAM DATE
2020-04-13Costa’s highly constructed photographs picture his anxieties and desires as he reconciles a longing for symbols from his youth with the more pervasive images that now occupy his field of view. The resulting works—part autobiographical, part fiction—are a materialization of memories and fantasies warped not only by the passage of time but also by a steady consumption of media imagery.
Costa’s interest in the visual language of desire is rooted in his early memories growing up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh in the late 1980s and 1990s. His first influences were shiny pop culture images from television, fashion magazines, and advertisements.
Opposite – Green Apples, 2019
Exhibition runs through to April 18th, 2020
ClampArt
247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001
