- Venue
- Solihull Arts Complex
- Starts
- Monday, January 19, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, March 8, 2009
- Address
- Solihull Arts Complex Library Square Touchwood Homer Road Solihull West Midlands
- Location
- West Midlands
Exhibition of unique photograph images by John Garghan that aims to capture the disturbance to surfaces created by acts of joy riding and arson by zooming into scorched, disfigured vehicle parts that are occupied in the lifecycle of corrosion, the natural process that tries to reclaim human made objects to an elemental state more in line with the energy of the molecules the objects are made of. Torching accelerates this journey of returning to the earth and these photographs look to capture, investigate and at times distort results of the advancement of its lifecycle. Using results of the explosion; scorched metal, molten glass, fabrics, and plastics, the rust and the gallons of water from the firemen's hose the images turn a negative blot on the landscape into a positive beautiful landscape.
