Parking Lots
February 10 – March 12, 2005
Pavel Pavlov

Pavel Pavlov, Installation View, (Humber College), 2002 Detail

In Parking Lots, each subject is identified by a lamppost bearing a four-sided numbered cube. All the photographs in the series were taken using the same spatial configuration between the lamppost and the camera (both distance and position). This conceptualizing ritual is repeated four times, once for each side of each cube for all the lampposts in the parking complex. The result is a series of documentary photographic views where the figure points, not only to a specific part of the parking lot but also, in a random way, to the surrounding urban landscape.

Pavel Pavlov is a photo-based artist interested in the resemblance between the technological space constructed by the photographic (and video) camera, and the structure of the urban space. In his photographic and video installations, he connects these two spaces in order to reinterpret the concept of landscape in the context of our highly urban culture. Recent solo exhibitions include SKOL, Montreal (2002) and Centre VU, Quebec (2004).