Synopses & Reviews
A photographer who has always sought the inexplicable in nature, Sally Gall finds beauty in things terrestrial, a beauty defined and enhanced by its opposite: the unsettling, the precipitous, the fearful. Here, in a remarkable series of images of the underworld taken over a four-year period in Mexico, Belize, Southeast Asia, the U.S., and Europe, she explores a spiritual realm heightened by the history of early human passage, myth, and spiritual transcendence. In SUBTERRANEA, time is frozen in a fantastic and other-worldly architecture: crumbling walls, stalactites and stalagmites coated with icy limestone, and calcite formations gloaming in the darkness. With each image, Gall draws us deeper into a world forgotten. Mark Strand, the distinguished, poet, essayist, novelist, and former Poet Laureate, contributes an evocative essay addressing the arresting beauty of darkness, and the iconic power of Gall's photographs and the underworld they depict. Nan Richardson, editor and author, explores the mythological resonance that caves evoke throughout time and culture, from Mayan mysteries to the Platonic shadow world. An Accompanying Exhibition will Travel to the Following Galleries: Julie Saul Gallery, New York January 16 - February 22, 2003 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco March 6 - April 27, 2003 Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago June 6 - July 12, 2003 Robert Klein Gallery, Boston September - October 2003 Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington November - December 2003 Terry Etherton Gallery, Tucson January - February 2004
Synopsis
With each image, Sally Gall draws us deeper into the underworld existing in Mexico, Belize, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Europe, freezing in time the remarkable architecture of crumbling walls, stalactites and stalagmites coated with icy limestone, and calcite formations gleaming in the darkness.
Synopsis
Exploring the underworld made mythical by photographer of note, Sally Gall.