Re-constructing the Past: Visual interpretations of sculptural symbology
The Halide Project
April 15 - May 28, 2023
Although photography is thought by many to be a representation of reality, it truly is an artist’s construct. As a subtractive medium, every time we frame an image, a unique world is created from the conscious decisions we make regarding what we opt to exclude from that frame. And as an additive medium, we can bring into the frame what we choose in order to build up the worlds we are creating. The equipment and processes we employ can accentuate aspects of those worlds, guiding the viewers’ emotional response to our images.
The artists in Constructing Mythologies – Sally Chapman, Sandra C. Davis, and Tricia Rosenkilde – capitalize on both the subtractive and additive aspects of photography by
re-presenting and recontextualizing the sculptural symbology of history and mythology. They utilize human-designed and -built constructs and spaces that have specific historical implications to create expressive, new worlds from existing ones. Their works serve to both bridge and meld the past and present.
