Jonathan Latiano - Scaling a Pyramid

Hawthorn Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Jonathan Latiano’s solo exhibition Scaling a Pyramid.  

"Size is objective, but scale is subjective.

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Scaling a Pyramid is a multidisciplinary project combining microphotography and installation sculpture to examine how we perceive volume, detail, and proportion. At its core is a simple but ambitious premise: construct a small sandcastle and photograph every grain of sand within it.

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At the center of the installation, a sandcastle modeled after the Great Pyramid of Giza sits on a pedestal beneath a vitrine of matching form. Surrounding it are thousands of images, each isolating a single grain of sand from the structure. The relationship is exact: every grain contained within the pyramid appears on the wall, and every image on the wall corresponds to a grain within the pyramid. Together, they shift attention between the monumental and the microscopic, asking viewers to reconsider…