Brassington is renowned for her beguiling surrealistic imagery. Throughout her oeuvre, interior and domestic spaces have been a consistent theme. Set within cloying patterns of carpets and wallpaper, corners and doors, her figures have enacted a theatre of the unconscious and the absurd.
A Perfect Day takes us outside although, as expected, Brassington's outdoors isn't all blue skies and sunshine. The colour palette in A Perfect Day is a little post-apocalyptic, featuring bleached and acrid tones of yellow and green or shades of black and white. The inspiration for this series came from reading a novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road, the story of a man trying to survive and protect his son in a post-apocalyptic time. It caused Brassington to reminisce on ominous childhood dreams and their menacing and uncertain spaces. Within these uncertain spaces though, there is Brassington's characteristic wryness and strange beauty. In Floating Chrome, her onetime pet dog Elsa drifts along in the empty grey space alongside a planet, in Rub Your Eyes a woman lays splayed face down on the grass, swamped by her mountainous skirts.
More recent works on exhibition reference traditional photographic language but present it with a twist. In Coming and Going for example, two photographic staples, the sunset and The Road leading off into the distance are presented in blood red hues with hallucinogenic overtones. Brassington's imagery erodes the easy consumption of the idyllic.
Pat Brassington is considered to be one of Australia's leading photo-media artists, producing work with great originality and vision. She has exhibited widely both in Australia and overseas for the past 20 years, and in 2004, her work was included in the Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of NSW and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is held in many of Australia's major public collections.
Women of Power consists of 29 color photographs depicting Polish witches, healers, sorceresses, visionaries, spiritual leaders and shamanic techniques practitioners.
According to what Ewelina Jarosz wrote about Women of Power : "The title points to Katarzyna Majak's intenti...
C’est à une invitation à la sérénité et à un retour sur soi que nous propose Yves Marcellin dans cette exposition inédite, installation photographique consacrée aux cinq remémorations du Bouddha.
Empreint des écrits du vénérable moine bouddhiste Thich Nhat Hanh, et plus particulièrement sensi...
With "The Family of Dog", Michael Ruetz has created, over the last 50 years, a unique body of photographic work. Superficially, these images might appear to pay tribute to the established forms of animal photography. But a second, more focused view shows that the reverse is true. Ruetz' pictures are as far removed from those of the animal specialist...
Failed States is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power.
In January 2010, while on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, Magid witnessed a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. After attempting to speak with a state empl...
Une Ford Pick-up, une Pan/Shovel 66, une Custom 2004 (Jeffrey), une Triumph 69 (Vince), une El Camino 64, une Bel Air 65 (peinte par Vince), une Duo Glide 62, une Comet (qui appartenait à Steve Mc Queen), une Special Construction 2000 (toutes, OM), une Harley 1969, une Dyna 2003 (Wes),une Pan 59, une Pan 62, une Pan 65 (John Copeland), une Sportster 68 (Dr...
Le conte photographique l’Emouvantail, se veut être « l’Echo » d’une histoire d’amour entre un épouvantail etune jeune femme, la Dame de l’O qui pourrait être celle de chacun d’entre nous… Mais pas seulement…
Créée par le Musée de l’Elysée à Lausanne, l’exposition Hans Steiner Chronique de la vie moderne a été présentée à la Fotostiftung de Winterthour, à la Médiathèque Valais-Martigny et au Museo Villa dei Cedri de Bellinzona.
Je ne vois que la photographie qui puisse, autant que le baiser, faire surgir de ce que nous croyons une chose à aspect défini les cent autres choses qu'elle est tout aussi bien, puisque chacune est relative à une perspective non moins légitime.
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