
Roger Ballen, Eugene on the phone, 2000, from the series Outland © Roger Ballen, courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney
Gallery 2, 3 and Screen gallery
17 July – 28 August 2010
Roger Ballen is a leading New York born, South African based photographer who has most recently exhibited in the 17th Biennale of Sydney. Ballen's images sit in the space between things. They are surprising, challenging, beautiful and strange.
Unsettled is made up of works from Ballen's Outland and Shadow Chamber series. These grim but quirky images of fringe communities in rural white South Africa present an uncertain world, between documentary photography and theatre. Between animal and human, the lived and the imagined, the natural and the performed, the clean and the unclean, the animate and the inanimate.
A Lismore Regional Gallery exhibition curated by Kezia Geddes.