JOE'S JUNKYARD | LISA KERESZI
On the occasion of FestivalFilosofia 2012 dedicated to the things, METRONOM presents Joe's Junkyard, a solo exhibition by the American photographer LISA KERESZI. The exhibition shows a selection of photographs taken mostly between 1998 and 2004, documenting the family business, a junkyard for two generations. Spanning 50 years, Joe's Junkyard is a personal narrative that explores the achievement and subsequent demise of the American dream.
Lisa Kereszi's grandfather was a first-generation American who built an empire of used cars and scrap metal in Pennsylvania, during the 1950s. Kereszi's disquieting, tender photographs of the last decade of the junkyard tell the story of this family and its struggles with a changing economy, urban decline, tragic and untimely deaths and the challenges of an independent business. In this photographic series, Kereszi repeatedly locates themes and motifs of impermanence and loss in the landscape of the junkyard.
LISA KERESZI
JOE'S JUNKYARD | The poetics of the junkyard
Festival Filosofia | september 14-16, 2012
september 21-22-28-29, 2012
FUORIMAPPA by metronom
via Carteria 8 | Modena
Hours: september 14-15: from 9.00 to 23.00 | september, 16: from 9.00 to 21.00
september 21,22,28,29: from 15.00 to 19.00
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