Ben Rivers: Urthworks Gosha Rubchinskiy work has become an end

work has become an end in itself

Melville House Publishing

and for good reason

run according to Shyria Law and underpinned by Pan-Shyist ideology

in relation to the (institutional) context

Ben Rivers: Urthworks Gosha Rubchinskiy work has become an endMACK, 2025, softcover, 176 pages, 17 x 21. 5 cm Urthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments. Observational images are interspersed with fantastically costumed