Plainville Drive-In, Plainville, MA, 1978
“I like this image a lot because despite how calm and still it is, it seems to be moving. The longer you look at it, the more the view of the blank cinema screen changes – first it moves forwards, then it recedes again.” Sonja Wunderlich, Project Manager, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
"The strikingly unspectacular suburban landscapes photographed by Barnaby Evans remind me of where I grew up in the United States. This image is of an empty Drive-In outside its context of use: with no film, no cars and with a limited colour palette, the scene is reduced to formal elements of shape and colour. It seems at once monumental and small. To me, Evans reproduces here what it can feel like to visit a place from childhood – drained of the activity you remember, proportions seemingly off-kilter, perhaps even a silence hanging over it. And yet the place itself is ambivalent." Westrey Page, Interim Advisor to the Director General
ArtistBarnaby Evans,
United States
*1953
Chromogenic color print
Image dimensions43,1 × 54,6 cm
Status
not on displayAccessionAcquisition 2019
Provenance[...]; 2019 acquired by Kicken BerlinInventory numberF.2019.2662
Contact
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