A definite plan for the future showing of work Inspired by the 2017 Martin McDonagh movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and artist Corrine Silver I really would like to display some of my images at the locations they were made. Small town America is punctuated from the surrounding open space by series of bill- boards once advertising local stores etc on the main routes in but now largely abandoned.
In the movie a grieving mother is angry over the lack of progress in the investigation into her daughters murder and rents three abandoned billboards near her home and posts on them: “Raped While Dying”, “And Still No Arrests?”, and “How Come, Chief Willoughby?”
Corinne Silva made a series of landscape photographs then creating an intervention in the Spanish landscape by installing three of these images on 8 by 3 metre billboards in specific locations in the region of Murcia and then rephotographing them to form her actual show.
Ive mocked up four genuine poster sites with images made in their locale, the small town sites are available very cheaply, literally tens of dollars, the hard part is finding the local agent, the city signs are extremely expensive and only viable as part of a mainstream consumer media plan with budget to match so LA may have to wait a while!
This of course is not a new idea, inSite running in 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000–1, and 2005 ran at various sites in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California
Originally founded to address a perceived lack of cultural institutions in San Diego, with its second iteration in 1994, “inSITE” expanded to locations spanning the area immediately around the U.S.-Mexico border with artists including Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, and Nari Ward, Curated by Jessica Bradley, Olivier Debroise, Ivo Mesquita and Sally Yard placed images and installations into the environments they aimed to confront.
References
http://www.corinnesilva.com/imported-landscapes-2010