Just for the Night

In the work of Alex Yudzon, several mediums—photography, performance, and sculpture—coalesce. A Room for the Night at Rick Wester Fine Art brings together projects undertaken since 2019, part of his ongoing series of photographs made in noncommercial hotels, where pieces of furniture become actors in ephemeral sculptural tableaux. Yudzon arranges the furniture that he finds within the rooms where he has booked a one-night stay into sculptures that appear gravitationally impossible. Drawing on the visual language of cubism, he creates dramatized compositions that borrow the visual language of painting, collapsing boundaries between foreground and background. These images suggest bygone eras and spaces on the verge of disappearing. Time becomes ambiguous. Occupying a space between the surreal and the formalist, they point to secrets waiting to be unraveled by the unconscious.