Petrina Hicks
Stills Gallery
AUS. Sydney, 18 Jun-19 Jul 2008
Petrina Hicks
Lambswool
from The Descendants, 2008
lightjet print
120 x 120cm / 90 x 90cm
editions of 8 + AP
Своеобразные портреты и 3D-презентации реальных объектов:
Petrina Hicks' immaculate large-scale portraiture represents something more than individual likeness. Beneath the highly polished and controlled surface of her images lies an eerie, unsettling psychological distance. Hicks' works probe those dualities that are at the heart of contemporary photography - traversing the fine lines between closeness and distance, between perfection and imperfection and between truth and falseness. For Hicks these are qualities that punctuate the continuum from animal to cyborg, her subjects exist somewhere between human and computer creation.
Clear eyed and smooth skinned, her young sitters are almost excessively perfect. The distinction between what was captured on camera and what Hicks has digitally created is imperceptible. In an interesting departure, The Descendants includes a series of video portraits. Hicks further confounds the real and hyper-real by employing a visual convention used in computer 3D modelling, a 360 degree view of a static subject, slowly rotating before the camera/viewer - but in this case her subjects are real rather than computer generated.
Instead of enticing or reassuring us, the works elicit a strange fear. The animals that appear at first glance innocent and gentle, later serve to unsettle us with an ambiguous presence. In Lambswool 2008 for instance, a young blonde subject, almost impossibly neat, embraces a wolfhound, which gently chews on her arm. It is an uneasy pairing.
The strength of Hicks' work is in the way the seductive techniques of commercial photography are subtly shifted…
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