Apparitions

In his series Apparitions, Gustavo Sagorsky searches for a spiritual sustenance, and indeed seeks to capture the spirit that infuses his world with joy. Although quiet and at times austere, these images nevertheless seem to embody Sagorsky’s delight in discovering the visual serendipities that enrich our daily experience. Abstracted from the context of their encounter, they become meditations on the relationship between photography and sculpture, an intertranslation between image and object. Even the derelict and discarded act as monuments to the human story, at turns sad or humorous, and become symbols, in Sagorsky’s eye, for the persistence of life. A spill, a stain, a scar, shattered glass – physical remains act as reminders of what has occurred and become apparitions of what could be.

• Jordan Rockford