New Photographic works Agony of Perceivedness III

75cm x 76cm

Series of 21, Editions 1/3

Inkjet print mounted on 2mm aluminium, with birch battens for hanging

This new series of 21 photographic works titled Agony of Perceivedness, takes what is hidden and taken for granted in everyday technicity and lays it bare. In these works parts from combustion engines that are usually unseen, are retrieved, cleaned, oiled and photographed. They are arranged on a bright green or grey background, to create abstract, composite images. Each work is mounted on 2mm aluminium, juxtaposing the delicate photographic print with hard metal. This work allows us to peek behind the curtain of often hidden mechanised technology.

The title is taken from the script of the only film that Samuel Beckett ever made titled Film. In Film, the characters are pursued through the streets of New York by the camera. The camera does everything it can to ‘perceive’ each character. When they are perceived by the camera, they suffer great agony and are destroyed.