Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004, Tate Modern
Visited the Jeff Wall exhibition of photographs. Inspiring exhibition and visually stuning work.
The work offers a suggestion of interpretation, they don’t fully articulate their narrative, but afford the viewer a space for them to read or understand. The images are beautifully composed, often echoing past masterpieces, some taking months even years to create. Others are intentionally flawed, this lack of perfection occurs in the composite of the transparencies. Although this imperfection is easily remedied, this is something that Wall selects to keep. In a society where we constantly strive for perfection, especially in digital images where imperfection is rare and so readily touched up, it’s interesting to keep such an obvious glitch intact. It also acts as a device reminding the viewer what they’re actually looking at.