Ian Strange
Harvard Street, 2012, from the series Suburban
Archival Digital Print
1020mm x 1530mm Documentation of site-specific intervention
Courtesy the artist
Ian Strange: Disturbed Home
Edited and essay by Kevin Moore and essay by Britt Salvesen
Art Academy of Cincinnati, October 1-December 9, 2022
Catalogue by Damiani
Ian Strange
Number Twelve, 2013, from the series Final Act Archival Digital Print
1620mm x 1120mm
Courtesy the artist
Ian Strange: Disturbed Home is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s architectural interventions, including photographic and filmic interpretations of those structural works. Highlighting projects of the past twelve years and spanning geographies from Strange’s native Australia, to New Zealand, Japan, Poland, and the United States, Strange’s provocative transformations of damaged or abandoned homes unlock themes of social upheaval and geographic displacement caused by a variety of factors—economic blight, environmental disaster, and social migrations.
Published on the occasion of exhibitions at the 2020 Perth Festival and the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, Ian Strange: Disturbed Home features lucid commentary and original imagery on numerous distinct projects, including renderings for Strange’s Fall 2022 project in Cincinnati, Ohio, addressing the biennial’s theme, light &. Also included are scholarly essays by FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore and Britt Salvesen, Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Department of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Essays address Strange’s practice within traditions of Land art, photography, public sculpture, and architectural and environmental studies.