ILLUSIONS

A series of works exploring how objects construct and alter the spaces they inhabit.  Each series within ILLUSIONS isolates the tools used to create artificial spaces: photography studio sets; fashion store displays; cinemas.

The works document the seemingly banal objects behind the design of glamorous, alternate worlds; spaces presenting glamour and fantasy and perpetuating consumerist ideals. Rarely noted as individual entities, these things are instead absorbed into the constructed reality of the space they help shape. 

Through isolation of the objects from these contexts, the artifice of the 'stage' is revealed. Outside of their role in the conception of colourful worlds, the tools themselves are revealed for detailed scrutiny. These mediums of artifice become sculptural forms in their own right.   

 

STUDIO

Following an intense period of time spent as a studio assistant, in London. I observed the repetitive re-use of the objects and equipment integral to the photographic studio. The monochrome space and items present would be reconstructed on a daily basis to create colorful sets of magical lighting; alter worlds resulting in sleek images of fantasy and desires, which are so readily and hungrily consumed.

This stark body of work literally strips away the glamor and illusion. The studio space is potentially, yet invisibly occupied by objects which exist only as an aid to visual creation, rather than seen as themselves. Created and coated in grey light absorbing materials these objects stand mono-chromic in an empty person-less studio.

By revealing these devices, out from the darkness, come the stains and marks of the make shift, covered with human alterations and adaptations. The studio space becomes a place for theatricality recorded life.

 

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30'' x 30''                           10'' x 10''

Edition of 10                      Edition of 20

C-type (Digital)                 C-type (Digitial)

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