Q-Art London

MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths

I am interested in the potential of the photographic event to transform the everyday and to explore this question I am making a series of photographs of floors. Since I am interested in the event these pictures will be taken in 'real' locations and will not be manipulated in any way other than in terms of scale.

For the last ten years or so I have been interested in the desire to locate 'proof' in the image (a legacy of rational, Cartesian perspectivalism), especially in the photographic image, and a refusal of this desire. In this series I am hoping to speak about this refusal, or this undermining of our belief in images, in several ways:

Firstly, in titling the pictures by location and date the photograph as document is referenced and simultaneously undermined by a lack of clarity as to what is being documented (actually the event itself perhaps?); secondly, by shooting the floors at a slight angle I hope to reference perspectival representation (which after all is photography's inheritance) whilst being ambiguous about the nature and scale of the surface; and thirdly, by photographing floors, which are solid, foundational and flat, I aim to create an allegory of photography itself. Having said this I also am very keen for the pictures to be beautiful, impressive and intriguing and to produce in the viewer the feeling of looking at something unfathomable and ungraspable, feelings that will be undermined by the knowledge that they are nothing more than photos of the floor. In this respect too the use of the floor adds another layer of meaning, representing as it does, all that is lowly and base as a foil to any claims for the sublime in the work.

What I hope to get out of the Q-Art experience is an opportunity to talk about (and therefore clarify) my ideas and hopefully have some kind of conversation about the themes and ideas that circulate the work. Basically I want to see if the work can do what I want it to do and think it can do...