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In this installation a room is transformed into a camera, its windows partially covered by shuttering and plaster. Mirrors mounted on motors on the floor each have a light activated switch which causes the mirror to rotate when struck by the sun. The rotating mirror sends beams of light around the room. At the same time a tape loop is activated which gives rise to a variable pitch sound. A Burning thread keeps smoke in the air which gives a physicality to the beams of light, enforcing the sense of a drawing being created.
The top and bottom images are examples of the research process, which the middle image shows the installation itself. All images on medium format Neg Film.
Prof. Jaques Rancière points out that in the notion of Photography or the Photographic, “the idea of the medium clearly exceeds that of the apparatus”. In other words what we think of as ‘photographic’ exceeds any narrow idea of photography as defined by the use of any particular apparatus, such as a camera and the recording of the image on paper or glass. In effect what we can identify as “photographic” can manifest in almost any number of ways, as prints or projections, as digital images, as reflections, as images produced in a Camera Obscura, as imprints created by light and radiation, as data from satellites and telescopes, as scans using various wavelengths of light, as code or even sound – so many ways in fact that materially they may have very little in common. The idea of ‘the photographic’ has been around for much longer than the camera.