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Todd Hido
Untitled #3176, 2005
C-print
38 x 48 inches
Edition of three
Todd Hido: Roaming
October 29—December 4, 2004
The work in Todd Hido’s new Roaming series appear arrestingly different than that in his previous body of work. It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly lit suburban tract homes featured in the monographs House Hunting and Outskirts, he has suddenly put his foot on the gas pedal and driven into the next day. But these landscapes continue Hido’s mastery in portraying the most mundane scenes with a menacing air of expectancy. These unpeopled pictures, often taken through a car windshield, are so effective in creating tension they might almost have been staged. But in fact they are taken “as seen”; the telegraph poles, the straggling tree, the road leading nowhere are all exactly as encountered by Hido as he drove through Eastern Washington State, the California Central Valley, Indiana, South Louisiana and beyond.
A new monograph featuring the work, Roaming, is available through the gallery and Nazraeli Press.