PHOTOGRAPHY
Apr 28 - May 16
Her
photos are never staged, they are snapshots of what lies outside.
She always carries a camera and looks around a lot, sitting in a corner
silently waiting for the landscape to reveal itself, to open up.
Her photos are not overly charged with symbolism, they are simple revelations, epiphanies, feelings that she absorbs through the camera lens and reworks using digital media.
"Post-production and digital manipulation is only used to get back into the image what I saw and felt when I was on location", she says.
"What I REALLY saw and what I believe can be the REAL look of things"
Her
images infringe standard reality, they violate what is commonly expected
with an eerie sense of unreality, as if one was walking into the third
dimension (or is it the 4th??).
There is a
deeper implication of simple scenarios, almost like wearing a special
glasses to suddenly see things become different.
Every element in Lucy's photos shows the 'other side' of things.
"It's like opening a door and to see what has always been there but you have never noticed it before and now the room is full of butterflies, the street has fish everywhere and it looks rather like an ocean, the council flats are surrounded by flying glittering stars. The tree branch is alive and is inviting you to join this other world", she adds.
Is
the tree really inviting you into his world, allowing you in? Or is it
going to eat you alive? If we look very close we soon realise that the
branch is a tangled web of veins, the butterflies might bite, the stars
have sharp blades… It could be extremely dark and very mystifying
beyond the glass of Lucy's world, our world, the one we all live in. Even
if every day we seem to be looking at the same things, we can now see
how every object has become organic and alive. The tree is alive. It's
looking at us, it's calling us, it's drawing us in….
"Things have to be noticed. Open your eyes, let them breathe".
Lucy
Sibilla
Progressing
forward from the commencement of my photographic works, the White Shoe
Series, evolves several works of an analogous kind, which similarly deals
with the process of collecting, installing, and documenting objects of
the same, multiplied components. After much exploration of various materials,
I have come to revisit my primary subject, the white high heels, wherein
my attempts are to challenge the human eye, its perception to make sense,
and the condition in which our minds attempts to identify with memory,
and past visual experiences.
Through this notion of the 'impossible object', my inspiration emerges from the continuing attempt to exercise the mental thought, during which I believe the mind enters a state, almost of the likes of meditation, where control lies within the ritual of placement and arrangement, reflecting patterns of positive and negative space, and the awareness of claiming the space.
My interests lie strongly within the personal, individual perception of the audience, including myself. As I have my own reasons and interpretations conveyed through my works, I find it equally fascinating to experience the varied responses from viewers, stimulated by senses of past memory and visual experiences."
Mari Hirata
"Never
before has technology been more immediate or more pervasive. Digital technology,
specifically the internet, challenges us to actively participate in our
information gathering. No longer are we passively absorbing information,
but actively discarding it. Television invaded our homes disguised as
a friend, the internet confronts us like a jealous lover."
Loculocu paint pictures with photographs. The work has evolved from
highly stylised portraiture to hyper-real abstraction, crafting unexplored
digital landscapes out of hundreds individual photographs. The viewer
is thrust into the camera lucida of loculocu's mind and is simulataneously
presented with an impossible array of perspectives.
Locu Locu
