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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL.
Becky Beasely, Chloe Briggs and Lisa Castagner.
5th - 21st Dec
PV 4th Dec 7.00 til late
Presenting objects as people and table
tops as thinking spaces, 'animal,
mineral, vegetable' groups three photographers who share the ability
to
produce a simple photograph replete both with and without personality.
Imaging psychological space in three diverse ways the work in this
show all
use the simple device of photographing an objects on, near, or under
a
surface and reframing them in such a way that they can be seen as
both
themselves and as some parallel symbol.
Lisa Castagner’s videos and photographs present a surreal and
tense
relationship of placement and substitution, with a woman disappearing
and
being replaced by a cloth and broken eggs from one shot to the next.
Becky Beasely’s
work is an iconographic topology that unendingly charts and
arranges objects into a lexicon of recognisable forms and implied
useage.
Chloe Briggs’s photographs herself as a thinking and subversive
object,
redirecting the notion of object or subject into a vacillating yet
immobilised state.
The works in this show reference and draw on an array of mutable
emotional
states that thread through the object back into the photograph through
nodal
points of reference. States of mind and matter are transformed in
these
works to generate a chain of associative links that challenge and
evade easy
description. Instead simple presentational strategies and styles
are
combined with an ambiguous and ephemeral content - the object and
its
placement cease to be the real focus of the work, instead they become
the
context for a network of imaginative leaps, leaks and inference.
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