Time Travels Through the Body: 2024
A series of 10 silver halide chromogenic darkroom mounted on aluminium with Diasec face mounting.
98 x 74 cm
Ed 3 + 1AP
125 x 94 cm
Ed 3 + 1AP
1: Portrait of a young man
2: Portrait of a grieving father
3: A family group
4: Hermes
5: Victory 1
6: Victory 2
7: In the setting sun
8: After Praxiteles and Mapplethorpe 1
9: After Praxiteles and Mapplethorpe 2
This suite of 10 richly coloured, silver halide, chromogenic darkroom prints, was produced from a group of badly scratched, worn and abraded, 10 x 8 inch, black and white, cellulose acetate negatives, that I acquired in an Athenian flea-market.
Representing damaged figurative sculpture from the Archaic and Hellenistic periods, the negatives, which were professionally produced for museological purposes, are themselves artefacts. They are damaged cultural artefacts of modernity, that cradle images of damaged cultural artefacts of antiquity.
This body of work explores the entangled mirroring between the materially manifest histories of care and damage recorded in the negatives and in their subjects.
