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Dark matter

documentary heritage
  • Other Name

    Ann Shelton : Dark matter (Alternate title)

  • Description

    "Dark Matter is an exploration of the lens-based practice of Ann Shelton in which time, place, narrative, trauma and female authorship unfold in shifting and destabilising ways. Her engagement with the fragmented nature of the social body, particularly those of counter cultures, and those who are at the edges of culture both literally or as subjects in film or literature, has been the force behind major bodies of work from Redeye to Public Places.

    Other substantial works such as once more from the street and in a forest reveal the conceptual focus and psychological strategies Shelton brings in her dialogue with overlooked and unwanted histories. Works introduce clues to an uncertain narrative and they are destabilising in the sense of offering concrete clues to an unsolvable mystery. Dark Matter includes new work created in the studio that reveals Shelton's ability to recover the unseen and overlooked histories and bring them into the light of day. Shelton's photographs are a locus for the unfolding of the deep investigations in which meaning always remains at one remove."--Publisher description.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    TR647 SHE (Library of Congress Call Number)

    88233 (Cat ID)

    88075 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Dark matter
  • Other Name

    Ann Shelton : Dark matter (Alternate title)

  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
  • Place
  • Date
    2016
  • Physical Description

    293 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780864633095
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Ways of loving: a conversation / between Ann Shelton and Cassandra Barnett, 20 May 2016 -- Home and homelessness: Ann Shelton's aesthetics of displacement / Donna West Brett -- Haunting and archives in the time of the now / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Bodies at the vanishing point: 'doublethink' and Ann Shelton's evental photographic constructions / Dorita Hannah and John Di Stefano -- Rooted in a dark history, exposed to light: Ann Shelton's photographs 'in a forest' / Ulrich Baer -- The dark light: the matter of Ann Shelton's art / Zara Stanhope.
  • Public Access Text

    Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ann Shelton: Dark Matter, held at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki November 2016 - April 2017 Bodies of work included: Redeye, K Hole, my friends are electric, Abigail's Party, room room, Public Places, everyone in the cinema is watching the prison, a library to scale, interstate, once more from the street, the city of gold and lead, in a forest, technologies of the self (remote self-portraits), Soft Spot, jane says. In slipcase.

    Includes bibliographical references. Label on slipcase: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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