Unfixing
Horizons.
A spatial audiovisual installation that unsettles the idea of a fixed photographic image.
Transparent printed photographic surfaces, moving images, sound and computational processes bring photography into a changing spatial relation. Rather than treating the photograph as a stable image-object, the work makes it something that can be encountered materially, spatially and temporally.
It is a work about the image, but also about what happens around it: the body moving through space, the installation as a field of relations, and the conditions that make perception happen differently.
A work in motion.
Unfixing Horizons begins with photographs of light and colour, translated into spectrograms and materialised as translucent photographic surfaces. Arranged as a spatial sculpture, these images are encountered through movement, changing light and the position of the viewer. The photographic image becomes something to move among, rather than a fixed view.
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A photograph beyond the fixed frame
Unfixing Horizons treats the photographic image as something materially extended and relational. The printed translucent surfaces are not illustrations of a prior photograph, but elements within an installation that reorganises how photography is experienced.
What becomes visible depends on movement, light, overlap, distance and angle. The image no longer sits still for a single spectator. It changes as the visitor moves, and as the material conditions of the installation interact with one another.
Move through the images.
These photographs can be approached as another installation field: a set of views, distances and details that echo the work's own spatial logic. Select any image to see it larger.
How is the work made?
The work connects directly to broader questions in the practice: who or what participates in making an image, and how does transduction become a way of organising that making? Unfixing Horizons does not answer those questions definitively, but gives them a spatial and sensory form.
It sits between artwork, apparatus and enquiry.
Another relation.
Not a next step in a sequence, but something this encounter shares with work elsewhere.
WORK / THE SENSORIUM
Another kind of encounter
An environment that continues changing whether or not someone is present to experience it.
Follow this relation ↗
WORK / SHINKAN
When sound shapes the photograph
From photographic material encountered through movement to images formed through the sound of travelling.
Follow this relation ↗The main navigation remains available. You can follow a connection without losing your place.