Bringing together photographs Jerry Hsu has made in Los Angeles since 2011, How
About Never is occupied with the almost sentient character of the city. Hsu’s
photographs are sensitively attuned to the contradictions of the place,
entangling allusions to hope and despair, beauty and pain in an atmospheric and
uncanny sequence. Images of disfigured fences and physical injuries are
interwoven with spontaneous compositions: a discarded toilet, a blood-stained
mattress, crashed cars, a bank ominously aflame. Portraits seek an intimacy with
their subjects among the disrepair and cruelty of the urban environment. These
disparate and dissonant strands reach a beguiling harmony, together looking to
destruction as a potential source of change and rebirth.
