photo : courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers, Berlin London
There is nothing more boring than seeing a photographer try to translate a photobook into an exhibition, treating the gallery walls as though they are editorial layouts or sequential pages. In Something + Nothing, Stephen Shore avoids translation entirely by creating a new narrative for the past four decades of his work: one that takes advantage of the viewer’s physical movement through the gallery to make us temporarily forget when and where we have seen these images before.
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