Lot 15

Brendan George Ko explores the feeling of the uncanny in the first chapter of The Haunted Landscape series, a collection of images taken during a recent trip to the Four Corners, a region surrounding the quadripoint where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. Desert valleys, hoodoos, and sandstone monoliths physically define the area; yet, it is an accumulation of histories that shapes its emotional landscape. Home to Indigenous peoples such as the Navajo for millennia, the Four Corners region has been chronicled as one thick with memory, enchantment, and the unexplainable. History clings to this ancient landscape, signalling itself to the contemporary witness as a sensation of eeriness or transcendence. Ko harnesses this ineffable quality in his photographs through the disappearing light of a sun just set.