(re)move

Publication Date: 2022

Publisher: Sian Gouldstone

Abstract:

(re)move is a body of photographic practice that uses wet-folded photographic paper, through making sculptural forms that can be undone and re-done, simply by re-wetting. These images form part of the experimental strategies that I use in my research to explore decoloniality through making, influenced by concepts of undoing, redoing, unlearning, relearning, absence and presence. The photographic paper is absent of a fixed photographic image but becomes the object and subject of a photographic image itself. This dichotomy between absence and presence alludes to the idea that we might project, or imagine, a multiplicity of images for these 'photographs'. As such, images might be thought momentary, unfixed, speculative or yet to be formed, and their removal and reinstating an allegorical decolonial strategy.

https://www.siangouldstone.co.uk/re-move

Source: Manual