TODD HIDO – BRIGHT BLACK WORLD
2019-03-11Bright Black World, is a new exhibition of work by Todd Hido exploring the dark topography of the Northern European landscape, highlighting Hido’s first significant foray extensively photographing territory outside of the United States, chronicling a decidedly new psychological geography and environmental concern. A new publication by Nazraeli Press accompanies the exhibition of the same title and will be available through Casemore Kirkeby.
For nearly three decades, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and stylized portraits. He has traversed North America capturing places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. Nordic mythology, specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which literally translates to ‘the great winter’, influenced many of Hido’s new images, which provide form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending tundra.
Opposite – Bus Station with Young Elephants
Exhibition runs through to April 2nd, 2019
Casemore Kirkeby
1275 Minnesota Street, #102
San Francisco
94107 CA
