Four LUX
Part of the Nottingham Trent LUX Photography Degree Show Festival
June 5th to June 16th 2007
Surface Gallery is proud to present four BA visual artists who have come together forming an exhibition of seductively intelligent photographic work.
In Tales of Other Spaces Wiesner makes photographs that float between fact and fiction, creating utopian spaces that appear to be fundamentally unreal, even fictional. The photographic medium transforms the garden from the familiar and domestic, to a dramatic stage where the ordinary and the mysterious seem to co-exist. Banal objects posses a presence, physical and symbolic in their unfamiliarity. Fragile moments grow out of darkness to reveal imaginary places that cannot exist without the camera.
The Still Point is a collection of fragmented moments. Each photograph is incapable of conveying a story in its entirety; instead the consequences of light leave an imprint of what has passed. Lucinda Chua’s imagery captures characters at pivotal points of interim where they remain bound to their poses trapped within the frame. Whilst this moment of stillness is silent, each tableau is a performance, pieced together and constructed like a work of fiction.
Holly Malone’s body of work The Curious Stage consists of sincere portraits unassuming in their subtlety. Malone photographs a network of individuals close to her, all at tender points of change. Each photograph sensitively suggests a new beginning in their discovery of life. Whilst our future may be curious, her pictures collectively shed light on our ability to continually embrace the unknown.
Olivia Allen exhibits a series of photographs, which combine to create a sense of female awkwardness and mystery. The Female Enigma explores a woman’s troubled gaze through self-portraiture and masquerade. The photographs challenge the conventional image of woman through the representation of female masculinity. This critically informed work captures the female gaze in its most dominant form.