Solo Exhibition PaperLightProcess London, in July 2019. No 4 Masons Yard London SW1.

The show is featured on Photomonitor, Essays.

‘Photography is freed from its traditional subservient role as a realist mode of representation and allowed instead to become a searing index of itself, to become an art of the real.’

REF: G.Batchen

Physically a photograph consists of a base, a light-sensitive layer, and an image. I worked with materiality, light sensitivity, and process to create my project ‘PaperLightProcess’. Experimenting with light direction and intensity of light with coloured paper sensitised with a cyanotype solution, I started to work forwards to create a body of work.

The folding of the paper is directly linked to the essay, The Fold, written by Giles Deleuze. Deleuze interprets the world as a body of infinite folds that weave through compressed time and space. While folding the works, I was mindful of how folds cannot be unfolded, they are final. This, to me, importantly relates to the irreversible damage that we have inflicted upon our world.

The flow of time/duration is also another aspect to the work. Some works have taken up to three exposures and several days to finalise. The physical, haptic approach of coating paper with a photosensitive surface is my way of connecting painting and photography in a contemporary way.