a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #10 2009
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© Rosemary Laing and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2010 Australia
Rosemary LAING Australian 1959–. type C photograph. 76.3 x 132.1 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2010
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Timelines: Photography and Time
NGV International
Friday 07 May 2010 to Sunday 03 October 2010
Photography has a unique role to play in our sometimes poignant sense of time passing. The camera’s ability to depict ‘a moment in time’ - to stop the clock for a brief moment – gives photographs a unique capacity to direct our consideration towards the mechanics and poetics of this pervasive and mysterious cosmic force.
In this exhibition one aspect of time is considered from a photographic perspective: namely, human life. Works have been selected from the NGV Collection both by international and Australian photographers that show an interest in some aspect of lifecycles.
Arranged, in part, in a ‘timeline’, these works provoke our understanding of the mediums capacity to suggest the concept of time in ways that may be surprising, moving or even confronting.
