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Artwork produced in 2018, first exhibited in 2023Extent
Original cyanotype photogram on butter paper, 59x83cmStart date
2023-11-15End date
2023-12-09Research statement
Background Projection lines for drawing are often likened to lines of light, especially when relating the eyes’ reception of supposedly perspectival imagery to perspectival projection onto a picture plane though techniques such as Alberti’s veil, or Leonardo’s glass (Haralambidou, 2007). Similarly, Raphael’s conception of orthographic projection, resulting from an increasingly (and ultimately infinitely) distanced viewpoint “are most readily understood to be representations of light paths” (Evans, 1995). Sciagraphy and oblique parallel projection share the same underlying geometrical rules, the latter being “like an orthographic shadow” (Meyer and Meyer, 1855–1863). Contribution This work is part of Suess’s ongoing “Shadowgraphs” project which engages with the architectural drawing conventions of sciagraphy and axonometry, using sunlight as an active agent in the production of cyanotype photograms and artists’ films. Suess’s experimental practices with the cyanotype photogram technique bring together the projection of light, and the projection within architectural representation. This work challenges the paradoxical, artificial, and constructed nature of the axonometric drawing, revealing that whenever the sun’s parallel rays cast shadows of a three dimensional object, they draw axonometric imagery into the world. Significance This transdisciplinary work utilises Suess’s grounding in fine art and architecture, bringing these fields together to form hybrid artefacts. The work exposes the underlying nature of oblique parallel projection, expressing its latent history as originating in the shadows already present in the world.Event
Projective Artefacts, a solo exhibition by Eleanor SuessPublisher
Five Walls Gallery, MelbourneUsage metrics
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