A week ago I visited ICIA – Institute of Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts at the University of Bath where I have been offered me a solo show, with Clothes for Death project, starting in September this year. The exhibition will open as part of the international conference ‘The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, and as my abstract got accepted I will also be speaking at the conference. More info on the exhibition and conference prep closer to time…
I’m still in the process of looking through, sorting and choosing images. And I’m not even sure why I say still, it’s as though I imagined it to be a quick straightforward thing and it isn’t.
I am going through a process of negotiation between my initial gut reactions and what could be perceived and termed more distant, conscious decision making. Which makes me wander about the relationship of physical and psychological space-closeness-distance to image making and image viewing.
Having spent some time looking through the magnifying glass, enlarging the image 8x, I could get to see quite a bit of detail, face expressions, their gazes…I feel as though I fall back into that space; I remember the whole space not just what the camera captured, and I don’t think I could ever step further then the confines of the room. On one level I feel freer to now observe the image for as long as I want, free from the pressures of the social interactions, and gentle tensions which are present (at least in me) upon entering their homes.
Currently I’m scanning some of the contact sheets so to have another way of looking at the image; and am posting here one of the photographs of Rosa and Cvijeta with their Clothes for Death.
I’ve also decided to book uber-neg-scanner at Photofusion for £35 an hour (ouch!) so I will have to make clear decisions soon as no time to fluff about at this rate!
