Shotgun Space is pleased to announce Inside/Outside, featuring selections from Liz Kuball’s In Store series and Johanna Reed’s Fields series.
Born in Washington DC and now a resident of Santa Barbara, Liz Kuball’s photography explores consumerism and its ramifications through what we use and how we use it. Of In Store, Kuball explains:
Between 1985 and 2007, the square footage of self-storage facilities in the United States grew 740 percent, and driving the freeways of Southern California, this growth is evident. . . As I drove by storage facilities, I started thinking about what was behind those garage doors and padlocks. It occurred to me that the warehouses weren’t full of meaningless “stuff”—they were the repository for all kinds of memories that people weren’t willing to part with.Liz Kuball has been documenting storage facilities throughout Southern California since, looking for “the beauty in these places, imagining what’s behind closed doors.” In presenting her photographs of the space in and around these storage facilities – the exteriors and interiors of the facilities, and their intrusion in the larger visual landscape – Kuball invites the viewer to imagine what’s behind closed doors along with her.
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Added by starlen on September 27, 2007