James Tylor
#Photographe
- Exposition
Exhibition : « Aotearoa, my Hawaiki » by James Tylor
James Tylor’s Aboriginal, European and Māori heritage is a focus of his artwork. He draws on his own roots to examine the complexities of colonial pasts, cultural identity and connection to place. The photographic medium and method he chooses is pointed and integral to the reading of his works. For instance, he is well known for using early photographic techniques, such as the daguerreotype, to reclaim processes used to document Indigenous Australian and Māori culture in the 19th century. He also manipulates contemporary photographs by hand-colouring, cutting or ripping them, alluding to the erasure and loss of Indigenous cultures.
This is the case with Aotearoa, my Hawaiki, a meditation on belonging. Hawaiki means ancestral homeland, a place of spiritual connection. For New Zealand (Aotearoa) Māori people,... - Exposition
Exhibition : « Work » by Kawita Vatanajyankur and « DeCookolisation » by James Tylor
« Work » by Kawita Vatanajyankur
In association with Head On Photo Festival, Stills is proud to present one of the most exciting new contributors to Asian-Pacific video art, Thai-Australian Kawita Vatanajyankur, and her arresting new series Work (2015).
Kawita Vatanajyankur- The Squeezers, 2015. Digital video still.
© Kawita Vatanajyankur
Endurance art has rarely been so pretty. Alluring luminous yellows, citrus greens and bubblegum pinks are distinctive of the artist’s aesthetic—a visual language of consumption and desire that speaks to a world of instant gratification and flattened complexity. However, this heightened superficiality lures you in only to confound your expectations—Vatanajyankur’s videos offer a powerful examination of the psychological, social and ...
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James Tylor’s Aboriginal, European and Māori heritage is a focus of his artwork. He draws on his own roots to examine the complexities of colonial pasts, cultural identity and connection to place. The photographic medium and method he chooses is pointed and integral to the reading of his works. For instance, he is well known for using early photographic techniques, such as the daguerreotype, to reclaim processes used to document Indigenous Australian and Māori culture in the 19th century. He also manipulates contemporary photographs by hand-colouring, cutting or ripping them, alluding to the erasure and loss of Indigenous cultures.
This is the case with Aotearoa, my Hawaiki, a meditation on belonging. Hawaiki means ancestral homeland, a place of spiritual connection. For New Zealand (Aotearoa) Māori people,...
« Work » by Kawita Vatanajyankur
In association with Head On Photo Festival, Stills is proud to present one of the most exciting new contributors to Asian-Pacific video art, Thai-Australian Kawita Vatanajyankur, and her arresting new series Work (2015).
Kawita Vatanajyankur- The Squeezers, 2015. Digital video still.
© Kawita Vatanajyankur
Endurance art has rarely been so pretty. Alluring luminous yellows, citrus greens and bubblegum pinks are distinctive of the artist’s aesthetic—a visual language of consumption and desire that speaks to a world of instant gratification and flattened complexity. However, this heightened superficiality lures you in only to confound your expectations—Vatanajyankur’s videos offer a powerful examination of the psychological, social and ...