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
IMAGES
poster
hamish carr, warren taylor