Featured photographer
Peter Ainsworth
In my latest photographs, I have been working with gallery professionals: art
handling technicians, conservationists and registrars. Within the photographs,
the technicians are asked to perform in the landscape as if they were in a gallery
space, treating detritus as they would works of art. In the series, A stuffed
bird found on a bank of the Thames at Crayford Ness, 2007, the technicians
are depicted mapping an object, documenting it so that it could be re-installed
within a gallery space, carefully wrapping the object for transport.
The work explores perceptions of the art object, engaging with notions of art
creation and the archival process. They provide
a dialogue about the nature of human intervention within the landscape, as well
as being an exploration of how we view the photograph within an art context.
Within the work, the gallery professionals become actors within
a fiction of art.
Peter Ainsworth has been commissioned by Pavilion to produce a new body of work
for exhibition as part of the Pavilion Commissions Programme 2008.
Related Link: www.peterainsworth.co.uk
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| A stuffed bird found
on a bank of the Thames at Crayford Ness, 2007 |
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