Richard Misrach, ‘Elephant Parable #22,’ 2020 © Richard Misrach, courtesy Pace GalleryPACE Gallery Seoul presents an exhibition of work by photographer Richard Misrach on view through June 15. This exhibition marks the artist’s first-ever solo show in Asia.
A champion of color photography since the 1970s, Misrach is known for his poignant, large-scale images that lean into social, political, and environmental issues of the present while also engaging with the history of photography. Subjects for his work have included desert fires, nuclear test sites, and animal burial pits in the American West; San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge; and the landscape of the US-Mexico border. In his radiant, contemplative works, Misrach—who lives and works in Berkeley, California—often examines the destructive effects of human intervention in the natural world.
The exhibition showcases his new work, Elephant Parable, created during the pandemic, for the first time, alongside 15 other works from his iconic series, including Desert Cantos, On the Beach, and Icarus Suite, created between the early 1990s and 2019. Together, these mesmeric images—exhibited across two floors of the gallery—meditate on humans’ relationships to the natural world and one another.
