Satellite Portflio 2011
Selected by Aid and Abet
On sale at Aid and Abet from 30th September 2011 http://aidandabet.co.uk/
Participating members featured in the first Satellite Portfolio are Dominic Allen, Jo Chapman, Polly Cruse, Nicola Naismith, Kate Parrott, Dominique Rey.
Dominique Rey:
Resistance Nest 9 – Happisburgh
A3 digital print on Fuji satin matt crystal archive paper
Dominique Rey produces photographs, sculpture, collage and video, informed by the narratives and influence of individuals on a particular site. The work investigates fundamental ideas about the transience of life, death and growth and notions of an afterlife or paradise. By using the form and lay-out of structures such as defence fortifications, places of worship, four-quartered gardens and Islamic textile designs, Rey works with the effects of time and human abrasion on the architecture of a landscape.
Number 9 is from a series of formalised views, fixed through obsolete World War Two defence loopholes. The camera looks out over shifting but peaceful Norfolk landscapes, here capturing the new coastline post landslide. The imposing black border defines the unseen, internal space and ‘holds’ the views and the voyeur. To paraphrase Paul Virilio, the visibility of the aperture, as well as its form, influences the perceptual identification of objects for the viewer. The bright views outside may seem distanced from the darkened, internal space. They reflect the disjuncture between a dark reality of life and ideas of a bright, paradise-inspired (after)life.
Virilio, War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception 1984
