Sinking Ship: the new Kyle Thompson's personal exhibition A journey through abandoned and empty America

Kyle Thompson was born in 1992 in Chicago. His photographic career started with a series of shots of abandoned houses in his city. The interest in abandoned places like buildings or woods comes from a fascination for emptiness and the remnants of the past of others in which we come across in our everyday life. The Sinking Ship exhibition, which will be open today Wednesday, October 20th at the aA29 Project Room in Milan, deals with the deserted America of the Midwest, with its desolate plains and ghost towns.

The photographer captures these modern age ruins from both the inside and the outside, in a perspective that puts the abandoned house in the context of a general abandonment. What Thompson photographs another America, lonely and disillusioned, driven to a collapse that is not only economic but also moral. He appears in some of the shots, but devoid of identity, his presence is ambiguous and unreal like that of a ghost.

The shot titled Toy Gun, which shows the empty box of a toy gun, speaks of abandonment and emptiness and suggests, through its absence, the menaceality of the weapon.