“Limbo”, 2011, Digital Photography
This work is trying to represent ideas of limbo and uncertainties with in the artist's current situation. This situation in which the artist has found himself in, has comes from the fact that he has been take out of a familiar location and educational system; then places into a new one. This miss placement has caused this uncertainty while he is settling into this new environment. This situation has been made more complicated as there are still important attachments which places him in his previous location and time, through friends, family and institutional commitments.
In the work the placing of the character twist adds a tension to the piece, with this tension showing the passage of time and situation. The work called “Picture for Women” by Jeff Wall in 1979, has a similar tension. With the method of capture describes a passage of time by the use of the mirror. The composition of the two images have several similarities, they both show two bodies at the same distance from the centre. The space in both of these images are spars area's which have clear lines breaking the whole shape, in “limbo” the hand rails create a different structure and method or exploring the image, while “Picture for Women” has the lights and the suggestion of a non-rectangular room gives a different dimension to the pieces.
Picture for Women by Jeff Wall 1979
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/image/roomguide/rm1_picture_for_woman_lrg.jpg
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