Making space: photographic traces of absence, stillness and the in-between in public spaces

My photographic project Making Space: Photographic Traces of Absence, Stillness and the In-Between in Public Spaces explores banal and commonplace empty spaces, non-places, liminal spaces and ordinary, inanimate objects. In the first section, Situating my Practice, I contextualise my practice within the broader context of photography and architecture, looking specifically at the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (1975) and affiliated photographers to highlight ideas about photographically documenting built structures. The visual language of the deadpan aesthetic is an important aspect of my work, and I elaborate on and explore “neutral” and “objective” ways of seeing. I consider a selection of photographers to establish various ways in which imagemakers use a formalistic photographic approach to communicate narratives through the representation of built structures. I expand on a phenomenological approach to making images, exploring notions of tenderness, care, alienation and violence. In the second section of the document, (Dis)Locating my Practice and Making Space, I position myself within the identified terrain to further explicate my practice and project. The physical project takes the form of silver gelatin handprints, larger inkjet prints and a video projection, and I discuss the method of display and curation of the exhibition and how they motivate ways of looking, slowness and intimacy.

Grantor

Michaelis School of Fine Art

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Fraser, Nicole Clare

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Josephy, Svea
• Inggs, Stephen

• Fine Art

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37199

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37199