Haakon Korbi - Precarity archival materials

Haakon Korbi - Precarity archival materialsSelf Published 2023 Precarity is a fine art photography book by Haakon Korbi. The body of work is driven by a concern for the precarity of the world we are living in. In a society that worships money and power, where humans are merely referred to as consumers and where technology separates us from nature; many of us have grown unaligned and alienated from our true sense of purpose. Exposed to endless cycles of polarized news and opinions regarding

His work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada

David Hockney

and the sociopolitical backgrounds that define them

creating a sense of continuity and structure

crystallizing reality into unexpected

and repulsive

For the public

who made that same suitcase vanish after I had found it as a little girl

the celebrated Italian architectural historian

Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff

these materials situate the reader in relation to Tafuri’s scholarship

a subtle allegory of our lethargy