Location
Art Gallery of New South WalesStart date
2020-02-22End date
2021-02-20Language
engResearch statement
Shadow Catchers, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, curated by Isobel Parker Philips featured a major installation by Patrick Pound that worked with the Art Gallery's collection, rethinking it through the lens of the photograph as a double of the world. The exhibition also featured the gallery's recent acquisition of 120 of Pound's photographs assembled as a single massive collection work: 'The Image Pool'.
The collection-based artwork installation placed Pound's collection-based artworks in correspondence with the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in light of this major photography collection survey. The exhibition which saw the museum's objects recategorised according to collection constraints imposed by Pound rethought how objects might be made to hold and express a single idea (of the photograph as a lens to review the world as a double) differently in a historical and contemporary museum collection context, thus challenging museum and collection practices and proposing the new idea that things might be rethought by applying collection constraints that repurposed things, giving them new and unexpected meanings. Pound positions the collection as a medium, asking us to re-examine and rethink objects that had become set in their ways. The exhibition of numerous found objects under a single photographic collection constraint pressed visitors to rethink the AGNSW collection works that we had come to think of in certain defined ways. Positioning the collection as a medium this Non traditional research generates new concepts, methodologies, inventions and understandings that have implications for collection and curation practices as well for creative arts installation and display practices.Publication classification
JO1 Original Creative Works – Visual Art WorkScale
NTRO MajorExtent
5 colour photographs and 1 catalogue pdfEditor/Contributor(s)
Parker Philip IEvent
Shadow Catchers. Exhibition (2020-2021 : Sydney, New South Wales)Publisher
Art Gallery of New South WalesPlace of publication
Sydney, N.S.W.
