Description:
In a career stretching back to the 1990s, Melbourne artist Eliza Hutchison?s Hutchison has worked to slice, shred, fold, mirror and sculpt photographic images, materials and surfaces to both activate and complicate the photograph?s chain of command. The images that echo throughout her long-awaited debut book Family Photos ? many of which came out of a residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris ? both embrace and shatter their collective title. Prised from the swamp of Hutchison and her family?s wider history, present and semiconscious, they ricochet between intense intimacy and collective significance, applying photography?s indexical potential to the most ephemeral and malleable of moments