PHIL BERGERSON – AMERICAN ARTIFACTS
2014-03-31Since 1995, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has made numerous extended road-trips throughout the United States, criss-crossing the continent in search of the scattered remnants of the ‘American Dream’.
American Artifacts presents an extract from this sweeping topographical survey. Bergerson’s photographs unearth liminal spaces inscribed with the residue of human behaviour and surplus cultural production: places where detritus, disappointments and desires collide in shop window displays, hand-painted mural and crudely made signs. Operating as both documentary photographer and cultural commentator, Bergerson draws on the American social landscape tradition to assemble a complex and poetic photographic portrait of a nation in transition.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of American Artifacts by Black Dog Publishing, a unique photographic book featuring seven suites of tightly sequenced images bracketed by the writings of Margaret Atwood and Nathan Lyons.
Opposite – Birmingham, Alabama, 2006
Exhibition runs through to May 10th, 2014
WORK
10A Acton Street
London
WC1X 9NG
