Tracey Moffatt’s Invocations is a 13-part series of photo-silkscreens, the imagery for which was derived from one of the artist’s own dreams. Broken narratives and highly dramatic scenarios are often used by Moffatt to create a dream-like quality in her work, and these same techniques are evident here. Her dream has been restaged as three disjointed stories about a little girl in a haunted forest, a man and a woman in a desolate wasteland, and an ominous host of ghouls.
The process of producing the series was technically very demanding. More than 20 screens were used by Moffatt and a master printmaker to build up the layers of colour, giving each image a painterly appearance. The photographs were shot on theatrical sets, adding to the sense of artifice in the final images. The stage sets, designed by Moffatt, took inspiration from the psychological landscapes of Francisco Goya, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney.
(2014)