ODETTE ENGLAND: EXCAVATIONS
FIRST RELEASE OF NEW IMAGES
FIRST RELEASE OF NEW IMAGES
KLOMPCHING GALLERY is delighted to release the first three images from Odette England's new series, Excavations.
"Preserving family history via photography is like an archeological excavation: it involves the exposure, processing and recording of remains. But to uncover the truth – or at least an interpretation of the ‘apparent truth’ of an image – a ‘hunt’ or ‘dig’ is required.
My project 'Excavations' explores the invisible social space of family storytelling. I make chromogenic color prints (in the darkroom) of family photographs using vintage Kodak film, as well as using snapshots from the album, and then carefully hand-sand them with various types and grades of sandpaper. Using sandpaper means I can blur detail, smooth areas, roughen up patches, and remove people or landscapes altogether…in other words, grind and polish my past, present, future. I make the importance of the snapshot as a memory-based object more beguiling. New stories emerge through interaction, transforming presence into symbolic absence.
The new images challenge how past events are re-presented to us through imagery and how these can influence what we think and believe."–Odette England
"Preserving family history via photography is like an archeological excavation: it involves the exposure, processing and recording of remains. But to uncover the truth – or at least an interpretation of the ‘apparent truth’ of an image – a ‘hunt’ or ‘dig’ is required.
My project 'Excavations' explores the invisible social space of family storytelling. I make chromogenic color prints (in the darkroom) of family photographs using vintage Kodak film, as well as using snapshots from the album, and then carefully hand-sand them with various types and grades of sandpaper. Using sandpaper means I can blur detail, smooth areas, roughen up patches, and remove people or landscapes altogether…in other words, grind and polish my past, present, future. I make the importance of the snapshot as a memory-based object more beguiling. New stories emerge through interaction, transforming presence into symbolic absence.
The new images challenge how past events are re-presented to us through imagery and how these can influence what we think and believe."–Odette England
Excavation No. 6, 2015
Excavation No. 33, 2015
Excavation No. 59, 2015
The Excavation series is available as follows:
Size: 18.5"x18.5" image on 22.5"x22.5" sheet
Unique archival pigment prints, hand-sanded with sandpaper
Signed, titled and dated via label
Pricing and further information available from:
Debra Klomp Ching on +1 212 796 2070
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