Photobook. Design: Sarah Walker and Erin Callaghan. Edited by Justine Ellis, Dan Rule. Illustrated paper wrappers.
Summary:
Grounded in the adage that seeing is believing, Sarah Walker's debut book assumes a cynical appraisal of our collective relationship with spirituality, faith, ritual, and the search for meaning. Utilising the trickery of photography in relation to simple phenomena such as light, forms, and movement, Walker reframes and appropriates fragments of the everyday to imbue them with the loaded atmosphere of the ephemeral and the arcane. The project interprets the supernatural in a contemporary space, looking into our ability to have faith in something that is intangible and beyond our comprehension. The images unveil the many elements that help us fathom the world beyond what we see. "Taking its bearings from the adage that seeing is believing, the debut book from young Melbourne photographer Sarah Walker, Second Sight, assumes a cynical vantage on our collective relationship with spirituality, faith, ritual and the search for meaning. Utilising the trickery of photography, Walker reframes and appropriates fragments of the everyday to imbue them with the loaded atmosphere of the ephemeral and the arcane. The resulting body of work proves as speculative and enigmatic as it is arresting and dynamic - a space where the image of refracted light, moving water or birds in flight becomes a foil for arcing bodily gestures, clasped hands, arrangements of rocks and abstracted, deconstructed portraiture. Here, we find ourselves enmeshed in the artifice of this fraught search for meaning, where each and every instance becomes a potential sign." --Publisher's website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.