ALLENBY GARDEN
2006-2011
Photograph series
Allenby Garden presents a sample of objects and moments from the artist's life. While a seemingly haphazard assortment, a closer reading suggests a compelling, impressionistic narrative, with each image capturing not a static cross-section of the artist's life, but a definitive moment of change and transition: still-wet spray paint; the artist leaving a room or dangling precariously over a water heater; a view from the bottom of a ladder, yet to be climbed; the likeness of a pig's head, melting onto the table and disappearing; a pattern of flattened boxes, which, we must imagine, will be filled. The images reveal the seamless and imperceptible arc of events that comprise a human life, captured in still frames and at intervals defined by something more fundamental than the linear arrow of time.
2008, 120*100 cm, chromogenic print
2008, 60*70 cm, chromogenic print
2008, 60*70 cm, chromogenic print
2008, 60*75 cm, chromogenic print
2008, 300*80 cm, chromogenic print
2008, 100*120 cm, Chromogenic print
Allenby Garden, 2009 exhibition, Tavi Dresdner Gallery