The unseen battle

The work of young artist Gerald Edwards stands out for its precise determination and mature social consciousness. His complaint is against the encroachment of a predominantly industrial and homogenized corporate culture on the people of America. To express this, Edwards uses, sometimes together, different languages (photography, sculpture, video and installation) and shows a personal and original interpretation capability. Rather than images it comes to visual metaphors, visual situations, construction representative of critical issues or deliberately obtained by disrupting a collective imagination. As those achieved in the Series “Bellum” to shed light on an American culture driven by modernization, economic change and increasingly at odds with the idea of a population soaked with history and tradition. Edwards shows us in a battle unseen almost like the myth of the free, pristine and unspoilt land of the southern states.

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© Courtesy of Gerald Edwards III

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