The photographs in Opacity Shift explore the circulation and digital malleability of contemporary images. Constructed from physical objects and printed imagery, they assemble vernacular photographic tropes, commodity goods, and cultural fragments.
The source images and objects are released from their prescribed function and become part of an unruly network that moves throughout works in the exhibition. Animals, food, body parts and consumer products all form incongruous relations that confuse perspectives, materials and normative codes. In this mix, things appear out of control, on the verge of becoming something else, and wanting to escape the confines of the frame.
Digital post-production techniques, such as duplicating and liquefying, are acted out with the physical materials transposing software processes into physical space. These system-shifting tactics of rephotographing photographs and translating digital processes, model how visibilities and representations can be destabilised, altered and reconstructed.
UNSW GALLERIES
21 MAR - 18 APR 2020
guinea pig, sticky notes, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 41 x 30 cm
golden chalice, egg yolk, seashells, 2020, framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 82 x 61 cm
blue tarp, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 39 x 29 cm
pink soap, apple stitch, puppy eyes, 2020, framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 86.5 x 65 cm
chilli pairs, chrome pipe, stress ball, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 49 x 36 cm
sticky sand, matchstick, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 30 x 20 cm
blue check, wilted radishes, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 20 x 15 cm
rhino glove, elbow joint, corn cakes, 2020, framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 93.5 x 70 cm
folded crackers, woven cane, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 18 x 23 cm
beige trousers, bread slice, neck brace, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 66 x 48 cm
flamingo smile, bandaids, breadsticks, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 49 x 37 cm
cream zipper, red delicious, shuttlecock, 2020, framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 62 x 47 cm
black grid, dusty tape, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 34 x 26 cm
breadsticks, cream stripes, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 31 x 23 cm
cream stripes, breadsticks, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 31 x 23 cm
red apples, sport shorts, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 39 x 29 cm
bucket spill, baseball, stone hand, 2020, pigment print mounted on alupanel, 67 x 55 cm
fake lashes, shin bone, marble touch, 2020, framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 62 x 47 cm
Installation view, Opacity Shift, 2020, UNSW Galleries. Image: Document Photography. Courtesy UNSW Galleries.
Installation view, Opacity Shift, 2020, UNSW Galleries. Image: Document Photography. Courtesy UNSW Galleries.
Installation view, Opacity Shift, 2020, UNSW Galleries. Image: Document Photography. Courtesy UNSW Galleries.
Installation view, Opacity Shift, 2020, UNSW Galleries. Image: Document Photography. Courtesy UNSW Galleries.
Installation view, Opacity Shift, 2020, UNSW Galleries. Image: Document Photography. Courtesy UNSW Galleries.
Installation view, Opacity Shift, 2020, UNSW Galleries. Image: Document Photography. Courtesy UNSW Galleries.
