MISSING

HAMISH CARR

APRIL 20-
MAY 12, 2007

These works are directly derived from missing person files and combine text and portraiture to deliver authentic, yet counterfeit, imagery. In many ways it is the fluidity of memory ­ real, imagined, constructed ­ that is pursued here in relation to missing persons. In the popular collective memory, these people can be quickly forgotten, but for those directly affected the image remains firm, along with the recollections of times now gone, or for some missed.

The exhibition portrays notions associated with that of missing persons ­ in many ways revealing the paradox inherent in the nature of persons sorely missed ­ the everlasting-memory mixed with the forgetful-mind.

TEXT
ASHLEY CARR

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poster
hamish carr, warren taylor