Blow Back
Blow Back
Year: 2018
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
June/July 2018
Blow Back 2018, consists of photographic documentation of a community of 33 Australian women artists representing different cultural backgrounds, types of practice and age who each perform the action of breathing out; their breath is then captured on the glass that frames their portraits. Each ‘breath’ is caught on the glass by my action of grinding on the glass surface with metal grit as an interpretative impression of their breath.
These portraits represent a collective performance act that uses breath as an action that is both gentle yet provocative. The performers’ open mouths mock the endless images of women posed in this way to suggest their receptivity; like a vessel waiting to be filled. In “Blow Back” their breath is materialized like the capturing of a sound; a unique expression of their voice; a silent protest.
- Julie Rrap
Cherine Fahd, 2018