Gesture
Gesture (video)
Unbearable Lightness
Untitled
Shelved
Iconofilia (ongoing)

Gesture is a series which brings to attention issues in photography as a visual language  through paradoxes within the work.

The gestures performed are both destructive and creative simultaneously. Through the destruction of the original image in the creation of a new image, the presence of the original is reemphasize. This transformation emphasizes the process of change and inscriptions of time. The work further transgresses our cultural values in regards to textual and visual information, through the destruction of a textual source and an image, destroying two things held sacred within our society and yet through the process of destruction transforming it back into a sacrd form, this time in the form of an art piece.

The images show clearly the hand of the artist in their creation and exhibit a textural element, however the scanning and reprinting process removes the texture leaving only the appearance of texture and returning the handmade into an infinitely reproducible.

The decontextualisation of the images leaves the viewer with minimal information about the framework the image once appeared within, reminding the viewer of  the way in which the image was used as support to a textual element and allowing the images to exist outside the confines of their original context. A tension is created because the viewer is free to explore and make new meaning out of the image due to its decontecxtualisaton yet is constantly reminded that the context of the image as changed suggesting the metamorphic effect of context