Surfacing I
2022
Transparency in light box
35.4 x 24.4 x 5 cm each
A set of eight
Exploring the universality of photographic reading, Surfacing I (2022) centres around the physicality of the medium and the idea how one invariably penetrates and overlooks the surface of photographic images. Intentionally taken on a medium-format box camera, the work captures a plain wall on black and white film, presenting a set of eight monochromic soft-focus images that unearths the specks of dust, scratches and amongst other marks collected on the surface in its unrepeatable form.
Despite the work appears to be devoid of content and looks identical at first glance, upon closer examination, the subtle details of what have been accumulating in and through time and spaces on the surfaces are then unveiled, where the deadpan details of the surfaces are shown up visually which acts as an obstruction between the contents and the viewers.
