The themes of
the exhibition ‘I LOVE YOU’ at Tenderpixel in May 2012
could easily be misunderstood. It was not a show about love at all.
The actual premise was that regardless of any immediate
motives we are drawn again and again back to themes that satiate our emotional
need.
We are
accustomed to photography’s function in our everyday media to clearly narrate
the world on our behalf that can make us a little complacent in our
expectations of fine art practice. As Troika Editions stated
at the private view “You are expecting us to work a little harder.”
Without reading
the exhibition statement we maybe forgiven for mistaking the theme
and some found ways quite successfully to imbue the works with un-intentioned
meaning. http://art-corpus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/review-of-i-love-you-at-tenderpixel.html
In my response
to Miranda Gavin's comments on the Hotshoe Blog;
there are no certainties, this is a discussion, a debate.
Grace Brown, 19
founder of Project Unbreakable is one of the artists from
‘I LOVE YOU’ and author of the title image. Brown says “I (sic) use
photography to help heal those who were sexually abused by asking them to write a quote from their attacker on a poster…to spread light, awareness, and healing for those who
have been affected. ”
In the decision
to share their identity in close juxtaposition to their protagonists’ words, Brown’s subjects use the boards as an instrument of control; preserving their
anonymity entirely or daring to ‘come out’. In the broader discussion of the
timeline of recovery, the boards act as a barometer of
healing.
Reproduced with kind permission © Grace Brown/Project Unbreakable
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