Todd Hido, Between the Two

Todd Hido

Between the Two

I gallery floor, 28.11.08 - 25.01.09

Todd Hido lives and works in San Francisco. His work is known worldwide and his works are held in many permanent collections at the largest and topmost art institutions such as Guggenheim Museum, George Eastman House, Whitney Museum, Art Institute of Chicago. “Between the Two” will be the artist's first solo exhibition in Europe.
Todd Hido is most recognised for his night photographs depicting deserted suburbs and roadsides. He draws much of his inspiration from the past and seems to recall random snapshots from his childhood and the atmosphere of the American suburbs where he grew up. “Between the Two” offers a deft blend of Hido’s search for places evoking the melancholic nature of times past and intriguing portrait photography. The featured portraits are the core of the project, while the other images work towards creating Hido's trademark mood. The entire project  combines several concepts operating on different levels, supplementing one another and interacting in numerous ways to emphasise minute details of the world portrayed and enhance the mood of the images. The portraits of women posing in desolate rooms give off the impression of rootlessness, isolation, desertion, loss and of inevitable end. We do not learn the names of the women or venues – the images could have been taken anywhere in the world and at any point in time..
The works evoke and stir our personal reflections and associations as if the stories told by Hido were an alternative version of an old story we seem to have heard or experienced already. The images in the project are not parts of a single narrative nor are they directly linked with any particular stories and may be seen as a starting point for personal recollections and reminiscences being completely open to interpretation.