Altered | Jacinta Giles

Altered | Jacinta Giles

3 - 27 July 2019

Altered explores the idea that moments of recognition do not entail a direct correspondence between a subject and an object, but can occur aesthetically in moments of strange familiarity; in which neither consciousness nor the object discovers its place. These strange murmurings are an uncanny, origin-less memory that appears displaced, fragmented and incomplete. Reveries able to trigger the effect of melancholy and nostalgia.

By using photography - a medium traditionally used to fix events in time - as well as photomontage in unconventional ways, the viewer becomes witness to the disorientating fragility of remembrances and the slippery shift that exists between fiction and reality.