This collection of photographs focuses on the transience of identity and the credibility of the signs that construct it. Regurgitating cliches, the photographs both berate inauthenticity whilst questioning the viability of an alternative. Taking the structuralist line that nothing can be exact or objective truth through constructed scenes.
The work illustrates a continuous transient quest for something or some place beyond our immediate surroundings that will make us complete.
Carefully selected locations and large format production combine to form fictional narratives. The rich colours, the size of the prints and the solitude of the characters endears us to them. The viewer id drawn in. Though the individual images are strong in narrative the collection jumps sporadically from one scene to the next. Drawn to reading the images but unable to piece together any continuous narrative the viewer is left with a sense of fragmentation.
The de-construction of any absolute truth leaves the characters alienated in a transient reality. Meaning is both fragmented and homogenised. The work both challenges and substantiates, seeking to contradict itself in being cynical but celebratory.
The Pitt Studio and art gallery based in Worcester
