Exhibition with experimental photography
24 February – 30 March
Lana Adams
Yusuf Ali Hayat
Mark Kimber
Junko Theresa Mikuriya
Justine Varga
This exhibition brings together contemporary experimental photographic work in order to refuse the orthodox ideas that photography is only capable of transparent representation and that it is the fixing of a single static image. The works selected for the exhibition break with this understanding and in the process fashion new ideas of what photography can be.
At the 1859 Salon 19th century critic Charles Baudelaire was dismayed to see photography included. He thought the medium was not able to achieve anything but the representation of nature, a subject unworthy of art. Art should aim to imaginatively transform our perception, not simply replicate what is already out there. He wrote: “Je trouve inutile et fastidieux de représenter ce qui est, parce que rien de ce qui est ne me satisfait. La nature est laide, et je préfère les monstres de ma fantaisie à la trivialité positive.” The exhibition and its artists present a strong argument against this idea, and show that photography is capable of more than mere representation.
The Little Machine is supported by City of Adelaide and Renew Adelaide
Justine Varga is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery
Justine Varga
Eclipse #4 and Eclipse #5
Chromogenic photograph, Edition of 3
2011
63.5 x 53 cm
NFS
Yusuf Ali Hayat
Metro Boulot Dodo / 5 pm, CollinsSt. (after John Brack)
Pigment ink on cotton rag from digital scan of analogue strip photograph
Edition of 5 + AP
2011 / 2024
25 x 215 cm
$1800 or $180 per month with Art Money
Framing available
Mark Kimber
Plastic Proscenium (Left)
Beyond the Proscenium Veil (Right)
Pigment ink on resin coated paper 1/3 2024
45 x 45 cm
$800 or $80 per month with Art Money
Framing available
Mark Kimber
Plastic Cerberus (Left)
Arose Like a Pillar of Fire above the Alps (Right)
Pigment ink on resin coated paper 1/3
2024
45 x 45 cm
$800 or $80 per month with Art Money
Framing available
Yusuf Ali Hayat
Container Train in Landscape (after Jeffrey Smart)
Pigment ink on cotton rag from digital scan of analogue strip photograph
Edition of 5+ AP
2014 / 2024
25 x 147 cm
$1500 or $150 per month with Art Money
Framing available
Lana Adams
Test
Anthotype on watercolour paper dimensions variable
NFS
Mark Kimber
The Magus
Pigment ink on resin coated paper 1/3
2024
60 x 60 cm
$1200 or $120 per month with Art Money
Framing available
Mark Kimber
I Was the Slightest in the House I took the Smallest Room
Pigment ink on resin coated paper 1/3
2024
30 x 30 cm
$600 or $60 per month with Art Money
Framing available
Junko Theresa Mikuriya
Eight Hours of Sleep, 12:30am –8:30am
Polaroid Type 55, pigment ink on cotton rag
Edition of 10 + AP
2003 / 2024
100 x 70 cm
$1750 or $175 per month with Art Money