From AIPAD Exposure:
Florida plays an outsized role in the public imagination, much of it related to politics, but also to the uber cheerful and candy-colored reach of Disney World and to notions of a sun-filled citrus-producing state. In his exhibition and new book (which is a collaboration with author George Saunders), Orange Blossom Trail, Joshua Lutz focuses on the overlooked population of central florida, which faces economic hardship and environmental challenges. The exhibition, on view at CLAMP through December 21, includes images that allude to the state’s agricultural history: oranges hanging on the branches of lush green trees, but also pictures of the fruit rotting and covered with snails and photographs of oranges scattered across a blacktop, next to a tipped over shopping cart. Pictures of orange groves are interspersed with images of orange-processing plants, and stretches of dilapidated buildings beyond the orange trees. Lutz also includes photographs of low-wage workers (landscape workers keeping a yard manicured, glimpsed through the branches of a fruit tree, construction workers in orange safety vests, factory workers) and strip-mall signs that suggest a darker side to the idealized image of the sunshine state.
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