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TRACEY MOFFATT

Plantatio and Other

Gallery: Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery

Opening: 9.4.2010

Concept Ideas trom Ttracey Moffatt:

" I shot these photographs 13 years ago in 1997. It was only recently in 2006 that I found the black-and-white negatives by chance in my storeroom in Sydney. I wasn’t looking for them; they just appeared. I had completely forgotten that I had shot this work. At the time, I had put these twenty rolls of negatives and contact sheets away because I didn’t like them. I was ashamed of the images and their simplicity, directness and obvious narrative.

In 1997, over a period of a week, I traveled to a mysterious location and shot these pictures. I don’t want to disclose my location shoot because I don’t want the work to be ‘located’ as in a documentary shoot. The photos are not a ‘document’ of a ‘place’. I want the photos to have a dream like feel and look like they could have been shot in Australia’s tropical north, or the Caribbean, or the Deep South in the US, or somewhere in South East Asia. Or possibly Africa. (Doris Lessing’s, The Grass is Singing (1950), is one of my favourite novels and film adaptations…Actress Karen Black gawking at the African man as he showers is seared into my brain.)

THE COLONY
2. At the time, in 1997, the word ‘Colony’ was in my head. I shot this work after I made my photo series Up in the Sky (1997, tinted lithographs) and just before I shot my Laudanum (1998, photogravure) photo series........" - by Tracey Moffatt (source: Roslyn Oxley 9) ...............

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