Sunday, November 05, 2006

"Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund" @ NGV Australia

Largely unthemed apart from the 'contemporary Australian photography' thing and as such covers a fair bit of ground. My favourites:
• Anne Ferran's ghostly photogram images of individual items of clothing, suspended in the dark
• Deborah Paauwe's "Double tresses", a cryptic image of two girls locked in an embrace, their long hair obscuring their faces (she says: "I aim for an enduring air of the unresolved")
• Annie Hogan's "Comfort", two images of the same empty room, sea-blue walls, light and shadows
• Jane Burton's "Number 1" and "Number 2", two Lynchian shots of a murky underground carpark, one with a plainly dressed woman (white blouse, black dress, I think) and one without