Tara Gilbee ‘Luminous Echo’ 2016 Digital Image on Rag Paper 841 x 1189 mm
Luminous Echo is a suite of photo visual works that forms part of a larger series I am developing by experimentation in the studio and dark room. These works employ light as a medium of affect, via destabilised explorations of surface and the phenomenon of retinal flooding. The result is an exploratory series, centered around a shadowy morphology of forms that intimates mutable spaces within the body. The work is based on scientific principles, phenomenological ideas and a semi-autobiographical approach. It draws on the historicism of photogram technique and previous X-ray works. It is conceptually based on previously-explored themes of figurative and abstract transfiguration, luminescence and emanation.
These initial small photogram unique state prints, were scanned and developed into large rag prints for exhibition.
October 2016
Luminous Echo @ c3 contemporary art space
The Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers St. Abbotsford
VIC 3067 Australia
This project is part of a process of research to enrich the embedded language and approach I have developed over time in my photovisual work. This practice is based on scientific principles, phenomenological concerns and a semi-autobiographical approach. It draws on the historicism of photogram technique, a quality of recognition imprinted in the silhouette of elements within the frame, and the ambiguity between space, scale and form. The images have a simplicity that beguiles but unsettles; edge and void are simultaneous. The pairing of readable human form and granular abstraction invokes the psychological body.
Tara Gilbee ‘Luminous Echo’ 2016 Digital Image on Rag Paper 841 x 1189 mm