Urban Visions, Soto’s first museum exhibition in the U.S., includes more than 30 photographs by the artist that create through-lines between site, theory, and image, a dialogue ever-present in Soto’s works. The exhibition presents an array of works from three photographic series: All Lovely Things Will Have an Ending (2006) from his time as a SCAD student, inspired by the titular, popular poem by Savannah writer Conrad Aiken; Circling the Square (2013–14), a series made in London and inspired by the Situationist concept of psychogeography, or “a way to delve into the soul of a city”; and A Certain Logic of Expectations (2016–20), a series created in the British city of Oxford that depicts the looming presence of Brexit, the conflicted local economy, and the diversity of the city’s neighborhoods.
Parallel to his practice as a photographer, Soto has published the photobooks In the Heat (2018) and A Certain Logic of Expectations (2021), which will also be exhibited in the gallery space.
