Socorro!
2023
First edition of Socorro! by Lucy Raven (2023)
First impression
Large format hardback in new condition
In a limited edition of 500 copies
Comes with a printed PVC dust jacket
Published by MACK
About
Between 2021 and 2022, artist Lucy Raven created a series of more than sixty unique silver gelatin shadowgrams at an explosives range in New Mexico, often used as a test site by the US Department of Defense and private munition companies. From within a custom-built room-sized black box purpose-built on the site, Raven recorded the elemental pressures of air and the raw materials that constitute the explosive event by exposing photosensitive paper for micro-seconds. These empirical experiments resulted in the subtly inflected abstractions that are collected in this artist’s book.