Time Travels Through the Body : 2024
A series of 10 silver halide chromogenic darkroom prints on aluminium with Diasec face mounting.
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
10: Double Victory (diptych)
98 x 74 cm
diptych 98 x 148 cm
Ed 3 + 1AP
125 x 94 cm
diptych 125 x 188 cm
Ed 3 + 1AP
This suite of 10 richly coloured, silver halide, chromogenic darkroom prints, was produced from a group of badly scratched and abraded, 10 x 8 inch, cellulose nitrate negatives (that I purchased in a flea-market in Athens), representing damaged figurative sculpture from the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. The negatives themselves are also artefacts, damaged artefacts of modernity, that cradle images of a more remote past, Western antiquity. My impulse for creating these works remains the entangled mirroring that exists between the materially manifest history of damage recorded in the negatives and in their subjects.
