Urthworks Edition:Signed extended the previous tenant’s shed

extended the previous tenant’s shed

Templeton grew up in an ostensibly different environment in 1980s youth

reaching beyond the hyperreal of the fairgrounds and the holiday occasions

and how emotion becomes a form of resistance

Urthworks Edition:Signed extended the previous tenant’s shedUrthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments. Observational images are interspersed with fantastically costumed characters and uncanny ruins. Through these eerily