Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen
November 11, 2014
Roger Ballen, Addict, 2014
© Roger Ballen
For more than forty years, Ballen has led his audiences into a bizarre, often unsettling underworld of people living on the margins of society – a shadowy realm, set predominantly in South Africa. The Asylum of the Birds, which gave Ballen's latest series its name, is a building in Johannesburg where people and animals share a disturbing coexistence in a house that is both a refuge and a ghetto.
The series, which was finalised in spring 2014, will be displayed for the first time as part of the exhibition at the Villa Stuck Museum. Theatre of the Absurd is the museum's fourth exhibition in the Year of Photography.
An extensive portfolio on the project Asylum of the Birds is featured in LFI 3/2014.
For further information visit Asylum of the Birds and Villa Stuck
Roger Ballen, Addict, 2014
© Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen
© Marguerite Rossouw
Roger Ballen, Take off, 2012, from the series: Asylum of the Birds
© Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen, Woman, man and dog, 1995, from the series: Outland
© Roger Ballen