Opens June 1, 6-9p:
”Fissure and Facture”
Justin Berry
Interstate Projects, 56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY
L train to Morgan Ave
Justin Berry’s first solo show in New York. Berry looks at imaginary worlds with the same sensibility that he uses to look at the real one. His photographs of video game landscapes and fantasy novel covers reveal nuanced portraits of the worlds that we long to visit but can never attain. He explores the legacy of the photograph and addresses its future at the same time. His pictures are taken with scanners and screen captures that are altered and cropped and laboriously reconstructed. In a world suffused with imagery, and with new tools for image making emerging daily, Berry does not add to the profusion of images, he refines those that already exist. - thru June 30
“High school is a shit whole. I don’t know why I wanted to grow up. People will go behind your backs just for fun. It makes me sick. Somedays I just want to give up.”
NOTE TO SENDER: Hun, you’re 15. You’re not grown up, you’re only a freshman. You’re still a kid. You’re too young to be so sad. Say fuck it, and forget about the people that treat you badly. Move on. Life’s too short.
