Being There II
28 April - 1 May 2010
Private View: Tuesday 27th April 2010, 6-9pm
A collection of photographic pinhole portraits captured at KALEID project Space in March 2010.
Guests, passers-by and the curious were invited into a mobile studio and asked to remain completely still for the duration of one minute. The inevitable movements caused by breathing, twitching, blinking create a blur and dissolution in the image revealed a photographic paradox; a manifestation of failure or a time-based record of being, as solidified intervals of life. Ultimately it is difficult for any sitter to remain fully composed.
Being There bound book of twenty four colour plates, edition of twenty four 2010
Photographic prints, edition of five 2010.
For more information and images contact Shelley Revill at the gallery: shelley(at)kaleideditions.com
FLASH Review Redchurch Idler
Twenty-four characters emerge from twenty-four pinhole camera images, some with blurry Francis Bacon faces, others steadfast as soldiers, a few managing a shy smile. Their thoughts are hidden, likewise their crimes and misdemeanours, each probably aware this laborious exposure is an indexical moment in their mortal existence, itself blessed with the fragile charm of a decaying isotope. Habel references sub-standard passport photos, you know the ones, but these shots would fail the stringent biometric criteria for crossing today’s borders, and so as implied by the deixis of the title, she seeks to explore a different human zone of mistaken identity.
