Seeking Transience

Seeking Transience

Cig Harvey (b. 1973) returns to Aesthetica for the third time with images from You an Orchestra You a Bomb, a new photobook that pays attention to the fragile present. Each vignette captures moments of awe, resting in the threshold between bewitchment and disaster. Each image nestles within split seconds where beauty mingles alongside an arresting sense of danger – dripping with sensory information and visceral consideration. There are moments of enlightenment to be found in a tangled web of emotion: characters are brought to the surface as harbingers for events that are yet to play out. Harvey is included in the permanent collections of major museums including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Solo shows for this latest monograph open simultaneously at Robert Mann Gallery, New York, and at Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, in December, running until January. Harvey is represented in the UK by Beetles + Huxley, London. www.cigharvey.com.