Photo exhibition reflects on why artists ‘click’
A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition, hosted at the Eclectica Contemporary gallery at 69 Burg Street in the CBD last night, highlighted six artists who make, take and present work that offers a fresh realm of possibility within their medium.
Titled Stop stop click, the exhibition addressed a key question within the industry of the future of the image.
To stop, to pause, to click manifests in everyday life across many platforms and interactions, and to take seriously the art of photography, does this mean a forfeiting of chance?
Or the momentary and immediate? Or does it simply mean a reconsidering of interaction and a reframing of approach to image-making?
Commenting on the work of the five artists – Kyu Sang Lee, Mia Thom, Justin Dingwall, Morgan Kunhardt and Bianca Bell – curator Clare Patrick, who exhibits one work at the exhibition, said: “The exhibition looks at the possibility of what photographs made possible in art.
“All of the photographers work with different techniques to create images that speaks back to what it possible.”
The gallery said the danger within all of this is to not move so far beyond what is accessible, but to make work that challenges viewers without alienating them.
The featured artists each pause on the idea of making and taking and present work that offers a new realm of possibility within their medium.