I'm not going anywhere without you
Produced during his residency in The Netherlands, ‘I'm not going anywhere without you’ comes from a series of eleven images that show the artist, Christian Thompson, dressed up as various whimsical characters posing in the European landscape. Like previous projects by Thompson, Lost together is concerned with the notion that identity is fluid and that it can be continually reconstituted through social performance. For Thompson, this notion is an important weapon against racial and sexual stereotyping, which might allow for a more playful approach to existence.
‘I’m not going anywhere without you’ shows a lone figure dancing on a desolate European beach. Like the other personae populating this series, this character seems comfortably out of place, dressed in bright, urban club wear and shaking a shaman’s staff as though he has a mystical connection with the grey seascape.
(2014)
Chromogenic prints are printed on paper that has at least three emulsion layers containing invisible dyes and silver salts. Each emulsion layer is sensitive to a different primary colour of light (red, green or blue). The development process converts the hidden dyes to visible colour depending on the amount of light it was exposed to. This type of paper is commonly used to print from colour negatives or digital files to produce a full-colour image. It can also be used to print black-and-white images, giving softer grain and less contrast than gelatin silver prints. Commonly known as c-type prints, chromogenic processing was developed in the 1940s and widely used for colour printing, including for domestic snapshots. While recent years have seen this process accompanied by ink-jet and digital printing technologies, chromogenic printing still remains in use to this day.
