'disturbed home' monograph surveys ian strange's provocative architectural interventions

THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MONOGRAPH FROM ARTIST IAN STRANGE

‘Disturbed Home’, a comprehensive monograph released by Italian publisher Damiani, surveys the provocative architectural interventions of Ian Strange. The leading Australian contemporary artist’s practice explores architecture, space, and the home through photography, sculpture, installation, site-specific works, film, and documentary works. From his native Australia, to New Zealand, Japan, Poland, and the United States, Strange’s provocative transformations of damaged or abandoned homes unlock themes of social upheaval and geographic displacement caused by a variety of factors, including economic blight, environmental disaster, and social migrations. The book takes a deep dive into some of the artist’s most significant architectural works over the past 12-years, with lucid commentary and original imagery of these distinct structural interventions and explorations of ‘home’.

Ian Strange, Disturbed Home monograph by Damiani | all book images by Annika Kafcaloudis

Damiani releases survey of the artist’s PROVOCATIVE interventions

Published by Damiani, ‘Disturbed Home’ deconstructs Ian Strange’s ongoing global body of work, featuring photographic and filmic interpretations of his most distinguished projects. The book includes scholarly essays addressing Strange’s practice within traditions of photography, film, public sculpture, installation, and dance performance – with words from the FotoFocus Biennal’s artistic director and curator Kevin Moore, as well as Britt Salvesen, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

‘It’s been a huge honour to work with Kevin Moore and Damiani to reflect on the past 12-years of my career – and to have the chance to assemble my major photographic works into a single volume,’ says Strange. ‘The book, alongside Britt Salvesen and Kevin Moore’s new texts, has allowed me to unpack each photographic and film work, show each works scale, and capture the communities behind these projects, beyond what’s possible in a single exhibition.’

‘Twenty-Five’ – Ian Strange, 2017 | archival digital print | selected work from ‘TARGET’ | location: Melbourne, VIC – Australia | artwork © Ian Strange

‘Disturbed Home’ is published on the occasion of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, as Ian Strange unveils a major new commission, presented alongside a publication, installation, and exhibition. Undertaking a three-month residency at the Art Academy Cincinnati, the artist will create new architectural interventions, film and photographic works in Cincinnati, commissioned by for this year’s Biennal. The monograph is available now worldwide via Distributed Art Publishers and Thames & Hudson, as well as online on Amazon, Artbook, Booktopia (Au) and Damiani.

‘Harvard Street’ – Ian Strange, 2012 | archival digital print | selected work from ‘SUBURBAN’ | location: Detroit, MI – USA | artwork © Ian Strange

‘SOS – Ian Strange, 2015 | archival digital print | selected photographic work from ‘ISLAND’ | location: Akron, OH – USA | artwork © Ian Strange

‘Corrinne Terrace’ – Ian Strange, 2011 | archival digital print | selected work from ‘SUBURBAN’ | location: Mountainside, NJ – USA | artwork © Ian Strange

‘Collingham Drive’ – Ian Strange, 2012 | archival digital print | selected work from ‘SUBURBAN’ | location: Detroit, MI – USA | artwork © Ian Strange

One Hundred and Ten Watkins’ – Ian Strange, 2015 | archival digital print | selected photographic work from ‘SHADOW’ | location: Perth, WA – Australia | artwork © Ian Strange | more on designboom here

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project info:

book name: Disturbed Home

artist: Ian Strange

publisher: Damiani

design: Bec Stawell Wilson
book format: hardcover, 11 x 11 in. / 156 pgs / 33 color / 88 bw.
distribution: D.A.P. (USA) Thames and Hudson (UK/EU)
ISBN: 9788862087698