About the artwork
Part of the Timeless Islands series, this photograph depicts an abandoned American movie theater. A true vestige of the past, this work is striking in its immensity, contrasting with a suffocating emptiness, a lost and forgotten glory. It is part of the narrative framework of Thomas Jorion's work, particularly marked by the theme of ruins. The artist's practice follows in Diderot's footsteps: "The ideas that ruins awaken in me are great. Everything is annihilated, everything perishes, everything passes away. Only the world remains. Only time lasts".
Expert opinion
This photograph by Thomas Jorion is one of the artist's landmark works. Exhibited in Tokyo in 2010 and Arles in 2011, it is reproduced in the artist's book Timeless Islands published by Place M in Tokyo in 2010, as well as in his major monograph Silencio published in 2015.
About the artist
French photographer born in 1976. Lives and works in Paris. Self-taught, he travels the world capturing ruins and neglected places with a large-format 4x5 analog camera. Through his work, the artist expresses the passing of time beyond our control. He also questions materiality by focusing on buildings, stripped of their primary function and lustre, but whose apparent obsolescence provides a new aesthetic appeal, a certain renaissance. Thomas Jorion is represented by the Esther Woerdehoff and Insula galleries in Paris.
“Discovering an auditorium is always an intense experience. Even when abandoned, this kind of venue retains a certain majesty, a haunting moment of silence after the last show.”
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