About this artwork
John Divola incorporated 1970s performance art into his photographs, straddling the line between witness and participant. When he came across a vacant home on Zuma Beach in Malibu, he was drawn to the crumbling structure’s ocean-view windows. Over repeated visits he began to appreciate the subtle changes wrought by others—empty beer cans or remnants of an indoor campfire—altering the site himself by spray-painting various surfaces. He switched from black-and-white to color film to photograph the interplay of his mark making in the abandoned space with the changing ocean backdrop. For Divola, his intervention and documentation are integrally linked: “My acts, my painting, my photographing, my considering, are part of, not separate from, this process of evolution and change.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- John M. Divola
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Title
- Zuma #28
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1978
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Dimensions
- Image: 24.7 × 30.5 cm (9 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Nancy and Mitchell Steir
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Reference Number
- 2015.699
Extended information about this artwork
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