According
to Zygmunt Bauman, a Polish sociologist, ‘contemporary society can be defined
as a “Liquid Society”: one that is in constant change’. Boock’s work questions
the western notion of desiring permanence; for things to stay constant, stable
and controllable, when in reality, we understand that it cannot be achieved as
we are transient.
Boock’s
work attempts to gain a sense of permanence, by capturing people onto
photographs. The use of the photograph as a ‘canvas’ already has it’s own
history and context; it has a captured moment on it, to be remembered forever,
or, for as long as the image or photographic paper exists. In the work, images
of people have been physically ‘scarred’ into the photograph’s surface, forcing
the permanent embedment of the person into the medium. The photographs have
been stained, bleached or scratched to reveal the person that has been
captured. The images rendered are of people that Boock has or has had a
relationship with in some form, exploring the transience of relationships or
her own transience. The work attempts to keep these figures in her life longer
than in reality. The viewer however ‘passes through’ these images, just as
Boock has with the people depicted.
Graphic images by Charlot Boock
Both exhibitions end on Thursday, 28 July at 4p.m.
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