Brick roads and flooded streets
Photographer: Joe Karlovec
Exhibit Title: Brick roads and flooded streets
Location: United States
Vernacular architecture can be many things; a physical object, an exchange of ideas, a visual anchor that defines the rhythms of our daily lives. It’s dynamic and dialectical. Over time our sense of place goes through countless iterations. These structures and their social value are malleable and evolving, inevitably fading into and emerging out of poetic vestiges of reverie, recovery, and cultural reinvention.
My work is a related to a series of experimental video projects dealing with my own trauma from socio-economic hardship and instability. The lucid volatility of each scene’s shifting landscape reveal glimpses of vertigo-like fever dreams caused by unrelenting economic predation. Echoes of environmentalism are pervasive throughout, as the emergence of our current gilded age is presented through a cinematic architectural lens of the previous one.
Inherent in the work is my intense believe in the metaphysical power of vernacular architecture. Though deeply personal, this approach also serves as a sociological framework to unravel a deeper context within the heuristics of place and epistemology of urban transformation. For 10 years, I relocated 7 times to 4 different states producing hundreds of photo and video-based documentational artifacts on the grounds of empirical research. These photos are the culmination of this ongoing project.
Joe Karlovec
jkarlovec@gmail.com
614-893-1290
@joekarlovec
Wilmington, NC
Joe Karlovec is an interdisciplinary artist based in Wilmington, NC. His work explores the metaphysical power of vernacular architecture. Most notably, its historical, mythological, and sociological context. Karlovec has spent the last 10 years developing a nomadic style studio while living in coastal communities in Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina. His last two solo shows were at Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach, FL & the Myrtle Beach Art Museum, SC. He currently works as Facilities Coordinator for the Children’s Museum where he maintains several historic buildings, including the oldest masonic lodge in North Carolina.
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