AMERICAN PICTURES ADDENDUM. 2018
PUBLISHED BY V1 GALLERY / TROJAN HORSE PRESS ON THE OCCASSION OF THE NY ART BOOK FAIR 2018
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The first solo exhibition with V1 Gallery in the Fall of 2019, Pray for America presented 45 selected photographs from Jacob Holdt’s archive of more than 15.000 photographs, shot during his vagabonding years in America between 1970-1978. An inquisitive, beautiful, occasionally disturbing yet always compassionate journey into the back alleys and slums of America.
Refusing to pick up the mantle of pastor from his father, Holdt crossed the Atlantic in 1970 and gradually discovered his own way of preaching universal love, not within the confines of his Father’s church in the village of Faaborg, but on the road in America: “I doubt that there is any other country in the world where I could arrive with only $40 and travel for five years entirely as a result of people’s hospitality and generosity. I have stayed in 434 homes in 48 states... My parents sent a camera for my birthday so that I could “prove” the many shocking things I wrote about. It was a cheap half-frame camera that didn’t demand much skill from one who had never photographed before.”
Looking both backwards, into the history of oppression, racism and sexism, and simultaneously gazing into the future,the pictures seem, at times, prophetic. They are not just about America, but the Western world’s dreams and nightmares in a late capitalist age of upheaval. To aim at the perpetuation of memories means, inevitably, that Holdt has undertaken the task of continually renewing, of creating, cultural memoirs. The visual testimonies are above all an invitation for us to pay attention, to reflect, to learn, to pray for America.