Home: Object as Camera

2021

Picture courtesy: The Star

Home: Object as Camera, 2021,

silver gelatin prints,

variable sizes



The artist embraces a slower pace of life at home by observing objects around her that she did not pay attention to previously, ranging from ordinary everyday objects such as her personal stationery to fragments of the natural environment. Her interactions with these objects allowed her to understand the significant role they carry. How each object plays a small, yet no less crucial, part in her daily routine. These ideas bring her back to a darkroom photography technique she explored in 2016 known as photogram. Photogram offers an authentic record of an object's size and shape without using a camera. By establishing and becoming a unique record of that interaction, these objects act as mediating apparatus a and a camera to the artist. The process of piecing images and visual patterns extracted from these everyday objects on a wall to represent her interpretation and expression of objects and their meanings engages viewers in a dialogue that are constantly unfolds.