Sunday 26th March
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Join artist Madeline Bishop for an exclusive tour of her Atrium exhibition Ten strangers.
Madeline Bishop is a Melbourne based artist whose work is conceptually centred around relational dynamics. Exploiting the persistent tension between distance and closeness in photographs, Bishop’s work uses a performative and constructed approach to dissecting the relationship between photography and intimacy.
For Ten strangers, Bishop asked ten people to be photographed together. Though these subjects were all known to the artist, they were strangers to each other. Their instruction was to press together, as if they were dough expanding and morphing to make themselves fit into a rectangle bread tin. Bishop photographed the scene over and over, revealing minute changes over time. As the session progressed, bodies settled into the nooks of each other’s bodies, and found new spaces to press against. Photographing in this way pushes the element of time to the forefront of what it means to make a portrait. Making portraits means trying to capture an organic, always changing thing. The subjects' feelings of comfort and discomfort ebb and flow. How people relate to others is in constant flux, even if we don’t notice the minuteness of the changes ourselves.
Curator | Angela Connor, MAPh Senior Curator
Free event
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This event will be followed by an opportunity to meet the artists featured in Develop, MAPh’s annual showcase of emerging photographic artists. Find out more.
