Emily Shur - Sunshine Terrace
On the occasion of the release of her new book, Sunshine Terrace, and in the unique venue of a now-defunct home design studio, Emily Shur shares her singuliar vision of a strange, askew domesticity.
It is the red eyes of a garage gate, a crooked tree growing over patchwork gravel beds, abandoned shopping carts, a strange triangular decoration, like a semblance of an imaginary map that one cannot read. These are the signs to be deciphered of a deliberately emptied residential area, whose human presence remains elusive, but whose inevitable markers we recognize: the stucco and asphalt surfaces, the chain-link fences and bodywork, the bursts of greenery, too.
Turning her lens towards her own neighborhood, perched between the expanses of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, Emily Shur adopts the figure of the walking photographer, focusing her gaze on this familiar place in which she precisely frames surfaces, colors and light in a true compositional pleasure, where forms respond to each other with a discreet humor. Sunshine Terrace is a portrait of a place seen through a slightly slanted, slightly diverted gaze, delighting in the details and oddities encountered during a navigation giving prominence to serendipity.
