Karen Russo – Sinkholes

Way Out East presents a solo show by Karen Russo. Sinkholes portrays a hallucinatory journey through a desert-bound future. Shot on 16mm and combining documentary footage with poetic narration, Sinkholes is a cinematic meditation on entropy, ecological disaster and post-industrial end-times. (Accessible for Open House London 14 September - 22 September)

Karen Russo’s exhibition at Way Out East Gallery is a culmination of a yearlong research and collaboration with University of East London.

At the heart of the exhibition is Sinkholes, a new 16mm film shot around the shores of the Dead Sea. Blending documentary camerawork and fictional narrative, Sinkholes creates a near future world where water is scarce. Russo’s camera navigates between the deserted beaches and architectural ruins, the salt flats, withering date palms and sinkholes that make this landscape so unsettlingly dystopian.