Location
University of Technology Gallery Sydney and Sydney College of the Arts GalleryStart date
2021-06-16End date
2021-07-23Language
engResearch statement
Background:
Photographic portraiture has a complex history and a contested present. Artists, curators and theorists are increasingly grappling with what the peculiarly indexical medium of photography brings to this field. In the digital era the evidentiary qualities of photography are increasingly being contested. Portraiture, and the limits and possibilities of the medium as supplier of truthful records, are key to these research discussions.
Contribution: Pound's work examines micro shifts in photographic portraiture, whereby the negative and the positive states of analogue photography point up and exemplify problems of capturing time and recording human qualities and differences. and their place in the museum archive. Gathering pairs of historic and contemporary photographic records of all types, Pound makes a collection-based artwork that is an archive of photographic recording of micro shifts. Exhibiting this major new collection-based artwork across two museum venues in four vitrines which were arranged as a display palindrome saw Pound install a performative version of display, whereby that display not only holds and expresses the ideas at hand but performs them. The palindrome display method is new to the field.
Pound's art-making puts to the test the role of the artist as a curatorial practitioner, making trouble for the distinction between artist and curator, and their historically separate roles.
Significance and Impact.
The exhibition was curated by leading artists and curators: Cherine Fahd and Julie Rrap across two university galleries: Sydney Collage of the Arts and the University of Technology, NSW. Pound presented at the SCA alongside Ass. Prof.s Fahd and Rrap, and M.C.A senior curator Rachel Kent. Pound recently gave a paper and 2 presentations on the truth effects of photography for the international photo festival PHOTO2021 in Melbourne. Pound's palindrome collection displays are sought after by international museums.Publication classification
JO1 Original Creative Works – Visual Art WorkScale
NTRO MinorExtent
1 pdf of catalogue
jpeg photographs of installation details to followEvent
The Other PortraitPublisher
SCA Gallery and UTS GalleryPlace of publication
Sydney, N.S.W.
