once more with feeling, Ann Shelton

2009

once more with feeling

Accompanied by the publication once more with feeling.

"Shelton's remake focuses the viewer on art as a cultural construct and points to the reliance of traditional painting on sight. The mirror image of her paired photograph of Otira Gorge is anti-spectacle; it challenges the primacy of vision by locating the meaning beneath the photograph's surface in a process which figuratively situates the 'spectator' beyond what is immediately apparent. The viewer is directed away from the act of looking to a world hidden from the surveyor's categorising gaze where thinking and remembering are privileged and the cohesive logic of the visual field is shattered. This aspect of Shelton's practice is consistent with the questioning of the primacy of the visual in the later half of the twentieth century by French theorists such as Jacques Derrida who believed that photography should be understood as writing or 'text'."
Poland, Natalie, once more with feeling, p.8, Hocken Collections, Universty of Otago, 2008.

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Installation, Hocken Gallery

Wintering, after a Van der Velden study, Otira Gorge, 2008, diptych, C-type photographs, 1214 x 1520mm each

A view of Seacliff, after an O’Brien painting, Truby King Reserve, Seacliff, New Zealand,
2008, diptych, C-type photographs, 720 x 900mm each

Atlantis, Port Gore, Malborough Sound, New Zealand,
2008, diptych, colour pigment photographs, 720 x 900mm each

Artist unknown rack 1, Hocken Collections, 2008 C-type photograph, 800 x 1000mm

Artist unknown rack 2, Hocken Collections, 2008 C-type photograph, 800 x 1000mm

Artist unknown rack 3, Hocken Collections, 2008 C-type photograph, 800 x 1000mm

Artist unknown rack 4, Hocken Collections, 2008 C-type photograph, 800 x 1000mm

Artist unknown rack 5, Hocken Collections, 2008 C-type photograph, 800 x 1000mm

Artist unknown rack 6, Hocken Collections, 2008 C-type photograph, 800 x 1000mm

Back of Painting (Lionel Terry, [Moonlit landscape] n.d.), HockenCollections,
2008, C-type photograph, 370 x 515mm

Back of Painting, (Lionel Terry, [Waterfall], n.d.), Hocken Collections,
2008, C-type photograph, 370 x 515mm

Back of Painting, (Lionel Terry, [Self portrait]), Hocken Collections,
2008, C-type photograph, 515 x 370mm

Back of Painting (Lionel Terry, The Path of Glory leads but to the Grave, 1933), Hocken Collections,
2008, C-type photograph, 515 x 370mm