Study for Hattah man and Hattah woman2013
This work forms part of Polixeni Papapetrou’s series The Ghillies, which depicts figures sheathed in camouflage (ghillie suits) standing in a desolate landscape. Although their identities are concealed by their costumes, the models are Papapetrou’s children, Olympia and Solomon, who have been featuring in the artist’s works since 2002. The photographs were taken in various desert, rural and coastal landscapes around south-eastern Australia. In ‘Study for Hattah man and Hattah woman’, the ghillie suits match the palette of the landscape, suggesting the possibility of camouflage, but the figures are adrift and seem to hover between states of concealment and disclosure. The windswept suits and moody countenance of the sky add to this sense of transition and help to create a strange, surreal quality.
(2016)
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