Sonnabend Gallery

This project consists of a selection of photographs taken in public and private places, some historical, some modern, with signs of human activity, but with no actual human presence.

In an essay about these works, the Portuguese writer José Saramago wrote that in these photographs Candida Höfer “set out to capture empty space, to pin it down, to make it visible” and writes further “It is hardly original to say that all photographs are silent, but in these gigantic images the silence draws depth from the emptiness, whilst the empty space draws on the silence to become, at last, absolute.”