Darkroom Encounters
(2022)
Dark Room Encounters is a group project featuring the work of Alice Duncan, Lesley Turnbull, and Ciaran Begley. Spanning photography, moving image and sculpture, this exhibition draws upon land and time to explore the intersections between ecology, identity politics and place.
This work explores relationships to self, place and site through light-based practices, image-making, and sculpture. In light of ongoing local and global events, the works transform the gallery space into a site of refraction and reflection - asking the viewer to reconsider how they interact within the world around them.
Archival inkjet prints, Black 3.0 (Vanta Black), MDF board, analogue light projection, dimensions variable.
Incollaboration with Dr Lesley Turnbull and Ciaran Begley. Commissioned by First Site Gallery for Photo2022 Festival, Melbourne. With financial suppport from the City of Melbourne and RMIT University. Documentation photos by Keelan O’Hehir.
The three artists in Darkroom Encounters are brought together from seemingly disparate, yet pertinent, practices. Images of [re]constructed past selves sit alongside images of proposed futures, as well as light-based projections that refresh themselves in the present. These works are interwoven with three-dimensional sculptural objects feature on the floor of the gallery – are these guides or obstacles?
This exhibition attempts to underscore the nuanced complexities of collectively living on colonised land. Combining digital and analogue imaging techniques, Darkroom Encounters invites audiences through multi-layered encounters with artworks that purpose a place where embodied views intersect- and new perspectives emerge.
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This exhibition attempts to underscore the nuanced complexities of collectively living on colonised land. Combining digital and analogue imaging techniques, Darkroom Encounters invites audiences through multi-layered encounters with artworks that purpose a place where embodied views intersect- and new perspectives emerge.
