Roger Ballen, Boarding House – Gary Michael Dault
Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Gary Michael Dault | Artists: Roger Ballen
[Summer 2009] OCAD Professional Gallery, Toronto March 5 – May 31, 2009 Everything is decay in Roger Ballen’s photographs: floors, walls, toothless mouths, and lank, rancid hair. Their only “beauty” (as we warily call it) – purloined from painterly, graffiti-wired photographs of the past (Siskind, Brassai, etc.) – is inventively and mercilessly imposed, in the […]