The private foundation Per Amor a l’Art presents The Whiteness of the Whale at Bombas Gens Centre d’Art (Valencia, Spain); a solo exhibition by Paul Graham (British, b. 1956) curated by Christopher McCall and organized by Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco.

The exhibition brings together three bodies of work by artist made in the United States between 1998 and 2011: American Night (1998–2002), a shimmer of possibility (2004–06), and The Present (2009–11). These series of photographs share a common interest in analysing racial and social inequality, reflecting upon the contemporary social fabric and, at the same time, examining the nature of sight and perception as well as the photographic medium itself.

The title, which refers to one of the chapters of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851), alludes to the blindness of men and to the idea that obsessive search for something could lead to destruction. This blindness, which is a consequence of a particular belief that makes it difficult to see what is actually happening in society, forms the basis of the metaphor Graham uses for this exhibition.