{"product_id":"chris-ofili-paradise-lost","title":"Chris Ofili: Paradise Lost","description":"In 2017, Chris Ofili photographed chain-link fences throughout the island  of Trinidad in order to explore notions of beauty, community, liberation,  and constraint. This series of arresting images-\"pocket photography,\" as  described by the artist-is the first body of photography ever published  by Ofili. Through these entrancing black-and-white photographs, the artist  engages with the diverse sources that inspired his critically acclaimed  Paradise Lost  exhibition at David Zwirner, New York in the fall of 2017.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since  moving  to  Trinidad  in  2005,  Ofili  has  continued  to  engage  with   the surrounding environment and culture, which has found its way into  many of his colorful paintings. In these deceivingly simple black-and- white photographs, he captures a wide cross section of Trinidad as he  highlights the encounter between natural and man-made settings, and the  different aesthetic possibilities each brings out in the other. In focusing on  a ubiquitous and seemingly unremarkable piece of equipment, Ofili is able  to comment on our interactions with space and each other, using a near- universal subject as the fence slices the sky, melds into a tree, frames a  basketball game, or reveals an opening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a new essay by the critically acclaimed author of  Island People: The  Caribbean and the World  (2016), Joshua Jelly-Schapiro charts the history  of chain-link fences; focusing on a selection of Ofili's photographs, he then  begins to explore what this imagery tells us about Trinidad in particular  and the Caribbean as a whole. These two essays-one visual, the other  literary-open onto a whole new set of interpretive possibilities for this  groundbreaking artist.","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664272396324,"sku":"9781941701829","price":54.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9781941701829.jpg?v=1777355189","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/chris-ofili-paradise-lost","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}