Joshua Tarplin

When one regards Joshua Tarplin’s work, one might feel a sense of displacement. His photographs are placed in a limbo between what his reality is and what he imagines it to be. This gap is where Tarplin’s draws his inspiration from. In a highly personal perspective, he shows us his world and the possibility of a world to be. Promises and claims are forms of speech that regulate his real and dream worlds, as well as ours. The artist’s goal is to turn power sentences into power images, releasing them on the world to become statements of their own. Tarplin’s aesthetic is achieved through different types of both image-making and cameras, that he calls Wallace, Camille, Frank, D, and Ilse. The result is a constant variability of imagery, ranging from the one that was caught as if in a stream of thought, or the one that was meticulously planned, with added layers of meaning. All in all, a playful consistent randomness.