Ben Rivers - Urthworks Edition:Signed

Ben Rivers - Urthworks Edition:SignedMACK 2025 Urthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments. Observational images are interspersed with fantastically costumed characters and uncanny ruins. Through these

wild and serene

and a maximalist desire to be loud and destructive

in tune with the crowds that pushed past her and mesmerised by the depth of history woven into the city’s structures

combining photographic prints on canvas

which was given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2017

Australia and Russia

and association

The past is brought in through the figure of Claude Bergier who was accused of witchcrafting and burnt at the stake in 1628

But in day to day life hardly anybody speaks German any more

Living Room (Aperture

disorder occurs at times

reminiscent of Brassaï