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* I am currently an artist in residence at the Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland. An exhibition of the works from the ‘Fossils in Paper’ series will open on the 19th of November at 11am and will also be open on the 20th and 21st of Nov 2-5pm, as well as on the 22nd of Nov 2-8pm*
* the residency at NAIRS in Switzerland (May-July) culminated in a group show, 25 September – 16 October 2011 info-pdf *
* the Queenborough and Rushenden residency exhibition has moved to Castle Connections, Queenborough, in March. The exhibition is also simultaneously distributed across:
The Gateway, Rushenden
Rushenden Community Centre, Rushenden
Old House At Home pub, Queenborough
Rose Inn pub, Queenborough *
*Previously, the Queenborough and Rushenden residency exhibition was on show at the Room (the mobile art space situated opposite Sheerness-on-Sea train station). 28th of January till the 28th of February 2011 *
* past exhibition: a few works from the Walking View series were part of the Hoepfner Stiftung post-competition exhibition in Industrie- und Handelskammer Karlsruhe, Germany, from January 12th to February 4th 2011 *
*past exhibition: a few works from the Walking View series were part of the Landmark Art Show open 8-28 January 10-4 Wed-Sun, Ferry Road, Teddington TW11 9NN
* an article in Bieler Tagblatt on occasion of Prix Photoforum SELECTION|AUSWAHL 2010 at PhotoforumPasquArt in Biel, Switzerland, described The Walking Project *
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* past exhibition: The Walking Project was part of Non Fiction at Our Space Gallery (12 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BE), 24. Sept – 26. Nov 2010, vernissage 23. Sept 6-9pm. *
About
My practice is based primarily in photography, extending into the fields of moving image and installation work. The passion for photographic experiments in both analogue and digital realm leads me to an approach that constantly questions and pushes the limits of the photographic medium in the fine arts field. I have a particular interest in the process of image-formation and the materiality of a photograph as an object. Working with historic photographic processes, I’m currently investigating the role of paper in photography, with its ability to capture, trace and reflect time through its materiality, from a position of a researcher at the Northumbria University in Newcastle, Great Britain. My inspiration is drawn from the natural environment, especially immersive experiences such as solitary mountain hikes.
I have recently completed:
THE WALKING PROJECT
The idea that one photograph can document the duration of a walk is clearly ridiculous:
an object cannot compete with an experience.
Hamish Fulton (quoted in: Tufnell & Wilson 2002: 27)
The Walking Project explores the possibility of communicating in the form of an artwork a subjective experience of the world understood in spatiotemporal terms and in relation to the body as the necessary subject of perception. It consists of long-exposure photographs, films, heart-rate records, sound records, maps, etc., which in this multitude of approaches attempt the impossible: materialization of a transient experience of basic activity engaging the body in a linear progress through space and time, and production of an object indexical to the distance and duration of the experience. Starting with the realization that the above has already been attempted (notably by the walking artist Hamish Fulton) and failed (as the above quote suggests), I embarked on technical experiments with cameras and photographic materials to test the limitations of the medium in recording a walk in its continuity. Balancing between materiality and immateriality, obscurity and information, the work places equal importance on the experience of the artist – principally a solitary affair without a witness – and that of the viewer – an imaginary journey upon encountering the traces of the walk.