The works in this exhibition represent gaps in time that are chaotic, fragmented and isolating. Images have been shot on trains, subways, buses and in airports — spaces that are perpetually transitory. To be in these places means being between a point of departure and a destination; they are places where restlessness and a desire to be elsewhere are palpable.
Thousands of photographs were shot over three years, and then during the pandemic, the process of gathering stopped abruptly. What emerged in its place was a practice of discovering resonant moments within the raw data. Intersections and crowds took on new significance, as did the situations where people are distanced from each other or dissolving into their environments. As the images coalesced in frenetic compositions of shifting locations and people enacting their own transience, themes of immediacy, delay and agitation emerged along with a deafening silence that weighs heavily on the participants in that space.
The photographic processes exploit technological glitches that occur as a result of speed and motion, and the work has been subjected to digital, mechanical and chemical interventions. The resulting images depart from photographic traditions that have a single frame of reference, often appearing spatially compressed and optically imprecise.
Disarray
Toned cyanotype
2022
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