EMPTY
A photographic work
Joanna Callaghan
Elastic residence
16 June – 3 July 2005
‘I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone’. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
A female figure appears alone within a domestic space. Her action and inaction frozen, isolated, repeated. Her surroundings empty and fill of contents. She appears at times as one woman, at others as another; naked, distant, faceless.
EMPTY explores notions of the feminine self. Boundaries of inner and outer space reduce, expand and contract. Within this movement, some thing is glimpsed. A woman? A soul?
Presented as a slide projection, EMPTY takes the form of a dialogue between model and maker, viewer and author, composition and construction. The work continues Callaghan’s fascination with isolating and manipulating pictorial layers in complex, elegant and evocative arrangements.
Elastic residence
22 Parfett St
London, E1 1JR
Tube: Whitechapel / Aldgate East
Open by appointment:
e: exhibitions@elastic.org.uk
m: 079 309 19075
w: elastic.org.uk
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