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Aliki Braine |
StatementAiming to use photography as a way of harnessing and containing expansive images of landscape, sky and water, I am concerned with showing the photograph as an object. The photographs are often cut, re-photographed, blurred, folded, or selectively enlarged, thus pulling the viewer away from the image and pointing to its surface. Although my images are all 'originals', and taken by me, they are treated as if they had a prior existence, through subsequent treatment they acquire a new identity. The violation of the immaculate surface aims at opening up the image and acknowledges our reading of it as object, representation and symbol. Despite these afflictions the works remain attached to the beautiful and the romantic.I have recently been working with a medium format camera and, in an attempt at breaking the illusion of the photographic medium, been hole punching or drawing in black ink on the negatives. By working on and pointing to the photograph's surface I am pushing photography towards abstraction. By these processes of elimination I am also re-investing the image with the act of looking while at the same time hiding or destroying the image. My intention is stylise the natural forms these photographs depict. Born in Paris in 1976 to French parents and having grown up in Algeria, Holland and Germany, I finished my education in England and settled in London 10 years ago. My work has always been photographic and over the past years has dealt with images of landscape. The 18th Century writing of Alexander Cozens has recently informed my work, as has my interest in art history in general and landscape painting in particular. Wilful DamageEssay by John Hilliard, 2007 |
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