Laguna Art Museum: Hymns to Silence

Jacques Garnier’s works are carefully composed, sparse images in which he strips away the superfluous surroundings of architectural structures, creating totally new spaces. To some, the new images evoke a feeling of abandonment. In the last several years, he has focused more closely on the details of the structures that he records, dissecting them into distinct and independent parts of the original. His first foray with this project was A Deconstructed Odyssey, from 2018.

In Hymns to the Silence, the high contrast, black and white photographs are meticulously detailed images of parts of architectural structures in Southern California