Skye Wagner’s photographs explore the circulation and digital malleability of contemporary images.
Made from physical objects and printed imagery, they mix vernacular photographic tropes, commodity goods and cultural fragments. The original images and objects are released from their prescribed function and become part of an unruly network that moves throughout works in the exhibition. Animals, food, body parts and consumer products all form incongruous relations. In this mix, things appear out of control, on the verge of becoming something else, and wanting to escape the confines of the frame.
Skye Wagner, blue tarp 2020.
Pigment print mounted on alupanel, 39 x 29 cm.
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Skye Wagner, rhino glove, elbow joint, corn cakes 2020.
Framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 93.5 x 70 cm.
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Skye Wagner, guinea pig, sticky notes 2020.
Pigment print mounted on alupanel, 41 x 30.
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Skye Wagner, golden chalice, egg yolk, seashells 2020.
Framed pigment print on Ilford Fibre paper, 82 x 61 cm.
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Skye Wagner, Opacity Shift, 2020, Detail view UNSW Galleries, 2020.
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