THE APPEARANCE OF A DISTANCE (2024)
Taking its name from the German thinker Walter Benjamin’s description of the aura, this body of work - originally exhibited at Chiquita Room gallery - looks at the contemporary manifestation of distance: the distance between things, ideas and ourselves. In an era of connectivity, why does everything seem so far apart?
In the beginning, we folded the world around the shapes of our bodies, by measuring with our arms and feet. Our future could be read in the lines of the hand and everything that existed had a correspondence with something else. Distance was equivocal, personal, made of flesh and words. But in our eagerness to achieve a perfect system of knowledge we developed other ways of measuring the world, and the things we observed began to move farther and farther apart, so that even our own bodies became inscrutable landscapes.
The work is structured around four “distances”: Immanence, proximity, separation and immeasurability and it combines a variety of photographic techniques with found images, technical drawings and archival material.
The writer Esther Leslie has produced an accompanying text available as a PDF
WORKS:
The Great Art of Making Things Seem Closer Together
25cm x 32cm
10 cyanotypes on glass and one cyanotype on paper, wire, found trigonometry drawings.
Unique pieces.
The Distance Between Us
Various dimensions
Laser etched reclaimed Iroko laboratory benchtop, pigment prints
Edition of 3 (2+1 AP)
*Each wooden rod corresponds to the “intimate distance” between individuals of different countries according to The Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology.
The Observer Effect or What we See, we See and Seeing is Changing
20cm x 25cm
Wet collodion negatives on anodised aluminium in handmade card housing
Edition of 5 (4+1 AP)
*The images for these works were produced using a microscope and original material found in the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona
The Great Art of Making Things Seem Closer Together
25cm x 32cm
10 cyanotypes on glass and one cyanotype on paper, wire, found trigonometry drawings.
Unique pieces.
The Distance Between Us
Various dimensions
Laser etched reclaimed Iroko laboratory benchtop, pigment prints
Edition of 3 (2+1 AP)
*Each wooden rod corresponds to the “intimate distance” between individuals of different countries according to The Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology.
The Observer Effect or What we See, we See and Seeing is Changing
20cm x 25cm
Wet collodion negatives on anodised aluminium in handmade card housing
Edition of 5 (4+1 AP)
*The images for these works were produced using a microscope and original material found in the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona
