Sarah Pickering - Faulting, Folding and Erosion
Educational display on the geological history of Cardiff. Museum of Cardiff, 2011
Down to Earth: This This image is from a never distributed series of black and white photographs taken in Cardiff consider the encounters with time and place as mediated by museums, tourism and the heritage sector. Each photograph concentrates on stories and associated objects and their forms of presentation, and how their real, imaginary and symbolic values might be distilled in a fragment. Pickering offers a strange encounter with the official narratives associated with place and history where order is quietly disturbed through the seemingly benign and matter of fact representation of reality through photography.
This image is taken from an undistributed and rare publication, Public Relations, commissioned commissioned & curated by Emma M Price & Russell Roberts for Cardiff SAFLE St Davids 2 in 2011 featuring:
Paul Shambroom
Martin Parr
Sarah Pickering
Dan Holdsworth
Pickering's body of work, DOWN TO EARTH was a series of black and white photographs taken in Cardiff to consider the encounters with time and place as mediated by museums, tourism and the heritage sector. Each photograph concentrates on stories and associated objects and their forms of presentation, and how their real, imaginary and symbolic values might be distilled in a fragment. Pickering offers a strange encounter with the official narratives associated with place and history where order is quietly disturbed through the seemingly benign and matter of fact representation of reality through photography. For Pickering, museum spectacle and tourism are visually connected with the theatre of commerce. A sense of time travel and other shifts in temporal relations, run through these images whose direct, evidential approach echoes the functionality of museum record photography. Down to Earth offers enigmatic glimpses into stories associated with Wales, stories that in their museum form draw on simulation and illusion. When translated through photography, a different line of questioning is introduced - an insect trap or hand-painted street scene is equally intriguing as a sample of moon dust.
The Publication was never distrubuted as funding cutbacks closed the commissioning organisation before it was completed.
Sarah Pickering - Faulting, Folding and Erosion
Educational display on the geological history of Cardiff. Museum of Cardiff, 2011
Down to Earth: This This image is from a never distributed series of black and white photographs taken in Cardiff consider the encounters with time and place as mediated by museums, tourism and the heritage sector. Each photograph concentrates on stories and associated objects and their forms of presentation, and how their real, imaginary and symbolic values might be distilled in a fragment. Pickering offers a strange encounter with the official narratives associated with place and history where order is quietly disturbed through the seemingly benign and matter of fact representation of reality through photography.
This image is taken from an undistributed and rare publication, Public Relations, commissioned commissioned & curated by Emma M Price & Russell Roberts for Cardiff SAFLE St Davids 2 in 2011 featuring:
Paul Shambroom
Martin Parr
Sarah Pickering
Dan Holdsworth
Pickering's body of work, DOWN TO EARTH was a series of black and white photographs taken in Cardiff to consider the encounters with time and place as mediated by museums, tourism and the heritage sector. Each photograph concentrates on stories and associated objects and their forms of presentation, and how their real, imaginary and symbolic values might be distilled in a fragment. Pickering offers a strange encounter with the official narratives associated with place and history where order is quietly disturbed through the seemingly benign and matter of fact representation of reality through photography. For Pickering, museum spectacle and tourism are visually connected with the theatre of commerce. A sense of time travel and other shifts in temporal relations, run through these images whose direct, evidential approach echoes the functionality of museum record photography. Down to Earth offers enigmatic glimpses into stories associated with Wales, stories that in their museum form draw on simulation and illusion. When translated through photography, a different line of questioning is introduced - an insect trap or hand-painted street scene is equally intriguing as a sample of moon dust.
The Publication was never distrubuted as funding cutbacks closed the commissioning organisation before it was completed.