Daniel Kariko: Speculation World and Storm Season
Exhibition: Daniel Kariko
VASA Exhibitions is presenting the photographic work of Daniel Kariko.
Kariko's work, found here in two series, Storm Series and Speculation World, addresses the changing landscape as a result of natural occurrences and those created for a failed economic gain and development.
Storm Series provides us with almost a contradiction in effect. With an eye towards design and aesthetics Kariko framed his work with a sense of beauty and intensity of form laid over the devastation of the Katrina hurricane. For the viewer, it may be a dance between the fluidness of the image and its presentation and the meaning of the event itself.
Speculation World reveals the interesting patterns and designs of rural development from the air, a sight too familiar to the air traveler. Speculation World resonates from the George Eastman House exhibition New Topographics (1975) and the book by Bill Owens entitled Suburbia (1973). Speculation World reveals a strange beauty of structures and changed landscapes pointing to the failed developments in rural America.
In both cases, Daniel Kariko invites the viewer to think twice about the facade of beauty so enticing in his photographic work to the pain and destruction found as their base.
A note on the display of images:
The multi-image format allows the viewer to interact with the images by selecting one or more images to enlarge, move around and place in a different sequence with other images. Our aim is to provide the viewer with multiple platforms from which to experience the work.
Copyright Roberto Muffoletto 2012