Search the menu Search Clear. This image has been sourced from artists CV. Overview of Career. Artist Statement. McNamara Gallery , New Zealand. You might be interested in Email Alert. Please provide input Please provide input. Ferran used her own daughter and friends as subjects in this project in an attempt to add a maternal component to the photographs.
While the series of 13 images are sexualised, the images do not contain any nudity. The images are close ups of emotionless faces, which have been given the effect of stone to create the appearance of the passing of time. The exhibition was on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney alongside other photographic series for the Australian Perspecta exhibition in Lost to worlds includes over a decade's worth of photographic work.
The project was undertaken in Tasmanian at the remnants of two female convict prisons sites, known as female factories. The work conjures with Australia's shameful colonial past and is part of an international trend in art practice that is described as the "archival turn.
The images themselves are dominated by the landscape, barely giving the viewer any other perspectives, only occasionally offering a sight of the horizon or sky.
The thirty images in the series are digitally printed cm x cm onto sheets of aluminium and set up so that when viewers move around the gallery observing the photographs, the reflections from the aluminium give the images an element of blurred motion.
Ferran uses the large empty field to find elegance through the stillness in this series of visually confronting images, the series is symbolic of a fragmented past. For the past 30 years, Ferran has been especially drawn to the lives of anonymous women and children, seeking to shed light on their presence, and absence, in museum collections, photographic archives and historic sites. Ferran has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and is highly regarded as an artist, academic and writer.
About the Contributors Thierry de Duve is a Belgian professor of modern and contemporary art theory. He actively teaches and publishes books in the field. De Duve is a regular contributor to the American journal ArtForum. Susan Best is an art historian with expertise in critical theory and modern and contemporary art..
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