Gold Country Real Estate

‘Gold County Real Estate’ by Bryan Dooley creates rhythmic contradictions through it’s layout and pictorial content, a proxy reality is created existing in a space at once arbitrary and fantastical, questioning the viewers relationship to the image and it’s ability to fulfil expectations.

Photographic conventions are ruptured through manipulation of the photographs surface, causing the image to exist in a visceral space where the image as an object is not simply re-presenting the past but instead challenges the indexical history of the photograph from the present.